[QE-developers] Quantum espresso on windows

[Lorenzo Paulatto]

Finally, if you are using windows 10 and you installed the "windows 
subsystem for linux"[1] (WSL, it is a sort of reversed WINE), you should 
be able to compile QE seamlessly as if you were in Linux, using gfortran.


[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

On 19/09/2018 18:56, Nicola Marzari wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear Hasna,
> 
> an alternative that will work smoothly is to install a virtual machine: 
> you get VirtualBox from Oracle (free and open source) and then the 
> Quantum Mobile, and you have QE and many other codes ready to run. All
> info (super simple - it's been done so that even I can run QE) is here:
> 
> https://www.materialscloud.org/work/quantum-mobile
> 
>                  nicola
> 
> 
> 
> On 19/09/2018 15:21, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:
>> You may ask for a trial license: the windows executable will work also 
>> when the license has expired. Not sure the SCM guys will appreciate, 
>> though.
>>
>> The current state of Windows compilation is reported at the end of 
>> this: gitlab: https://gitlab.com/QEF/q-e/issues/21 . I was very happy 
>> when I managed to compile and execute QE on my wife's notebook, much 
>> less so when the same binaries didn't run at the tutorial they were 
>> compiled for (error when checking the tmp directory; the SCM binaries 
>> do not have this problem). I have always hated Windows without a real 
>> reason, now I have one.
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:35 PM, Dr Hasna Kudilatt <hk462 at cam.ac.uk 
>> <mailto:hk462 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     Dear Sir
>>     I would like to install quantum espresso on Windows. When I checked
>>     SCM site, it is not free to download. Please let me know the details.
>>
>>     Looking forward to hearing from you
>>     Thanks and regards
>>     Hasna
>>     --     Dr Hasna Kudilatt
>>     Research Associate
>>     Department of Engineering
>>     University of Cambridge
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