Standard compiled binaries for Windows

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Hi

Is there anyone that could provide me with a standard castor binary distribution compiled for windows? I do not have any C compiler for windows but would like to use this in a workshop for the simind MC program in august.

Hälsningar / Best regards

Michael

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Hi Michael,

Would you need 32bits or 64bits executables ? I can prepare them for you.

Personnaly, I use the mingw-w64 cross compiler to build windows binaries. It is open source and is ran under a linux OS but create binaries for windows.

Here is the web page: https://mingw-w64.org/doku.php

I use ubuntu and there is a package for this compiler, so it is probably the same for other linux distributions.

Best
Simon

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Hi again,

Here is a link to get windows 64 binaries. I tested it on a Windows 7 64 bits systems and the benchmarks were fine.
ftp://ftp.cea.fr/incoming/y2k01/castor/castor_v1_win64_binaries.zip
This file will be automatically deleted in a few days.

Also, beware that data files over ~3GB cannot be loaded in RAM with CASToR on windows systems. So you must use the -load option to reduce the percentage of the file that is loaded in RAM at each moment. We hope that this problem will be solved in a near future.

Best
Simon

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I forgot to mention about the configuration folder.

With windows, the configuration folder path is hard linked during the compilation, so I set it to the current direction ".\config".
But it can be overloaded anyway using the "-conf" option.

Best
Simon

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Thank you so much Simon.

Is it possible to get both? If too much trouble 64bits is preferred.

Hälsningar / Best regards

Michael

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Hi Michael,

You are welcome.

I found a quick method yesterday from another mingw compiler for 32 bits applications.

So here they are the 32 bits executables: ftp://ftp.cea.fr/incoming/y2k01/castor/castor_v1_win32_binaries.zip

Best
Simon