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Hi folks Mosflm can be built and run under cygwin on Windows, provided you install all the developer & X11 stuff. I haven't built it for a while but the last time I did it ran at the same speed as the Linux (gcc/g77) version on the same box. If anyone _really_ wants a copy of an exe I can provide one, but don't expect installing it to be painless, hence the lack of an obvious download. Since cygwin executables are Windows executables, if you can live without a GUI then the cygwin copy runs just fine on Windows provided you have the right DLLs from the Cygwin distro. The new Mosflm GUI will allow Mosflm to run on Windows without cygwin or X11, but it isn't quite there yet. Having said that, I prefer to run crystallographic apps under OSX on Macs or Linux (almost any flavour) on PCs - the last time I used Windows was for videoconferencing. My Macintel iMac runs Mosflm 3x as fast as I would expect on processor speed alone, (compared with g77/gcc on PPC Macs) - I guess this is something to do with the dual core chip. It also runs the PPC copy of Mosflm at the same speed as I'd get on an equivalent speed PPC Mac (this is through Rosetta). * Previously on this BB I have bad-mouthed gfortran; well, it seems that they have been working hard on it and now it seems to work okay for Mosflm (though strangely some of the X11 stuff, which is all in C seems to misbehave in a slight and functionally unimportant way). So thanks and apologies to the gfortran people... > A list of what is unavailable for windows would be more interesting, and > shorter?? So far I missed: > > arp/warp > sharp > solve/resolve > mosflm (didn't find a binary exe, have seen screenshots under cygwin/x) > whatcheck (didn't find a binary exe, thought I saw someone with a > windows version once)
