[Pw_forum] Alternative to Xcrysden

[Rajesh]

Dear Matic,
Thank you for your guidance. I followed your steps and installed
everything. But now when I run the file I get
$ ./xcrysden

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|*****************************************************************|
|*                                                               *|
|*  XCrySDen -- (X-Window) CRYstalline Structures and DENsities  *|
|*               =         ===         =              ===        *|
|*---------------------------------------------------------------*|
|*                                                               *|
|*    Anton Kokalj (tone.kokalj at ijs.si)                          *|
|*    Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia                *|
|*                                                               *|
|*    Copyright (c) 1996--2014 by Anton Kokalj                   *|
|*                                                               *|
|*****************************************************************|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

  Version: 1.5.60

  Please report bugs to: tone.kokalj at ijs.si


  TERMS OF USE:
  -------------
  XCRYSDEN is released under the GNU General Public License.

  Whenever graphics generated by XCRYSDEN are used in scientific
  publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an explicit
  reference. The preferred form is the following:

  [ref] A. Kokalj, J. Mol. Graph. Model., Vol. 17, pp. 176-179, 1999.
        Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.

XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/cygdrive/c/xcrysden
XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/tmp

But dont get any xcrysden window.

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Matic Poberznik <matic.poberznik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Rajesh,
> > Dear Matic,
> > I am trying since last 20 days to compile xcrysden on windows 8.1 using
> > cygwin but always fails. Can you please guide me which version should be
> > compiled cygwin or semishared? And how to install using apt cygwin
> > utility and xcrysden through it?
> >
>
> Without knowing the specific issue it is difficult to say and it's been
> a while since i've done it, but here are some general pointers:
>
> There is no need to compile from source, try using the precompiled
> version : xcrysden-1.5.60-cygwin.tar.gz
>
> apt-cyg is available here: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
>
> The dependencies are (from README.cygwin):
>
>         * tcl-tk
>           * fftw3
>           * libGL1
>           * libGLU1
>           * xorg-server
>           * bash
>           * bc
>           * coreutils
>           * gawk
>           * grep
>           * gzip
>           * ImageMagick
>           * less
>           * more
>
> Make sure that tcl version is 8.5 not 8.6 I think there are some issues
> with the new version. You can search for appropriate packages here:
>
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
>
> and then install by typing:
>
> apt-cyg install package-name
>
> after installing all the requirements, make sure that you are running
> xserver, i.e. type
>
> startx
>
> before trying to run xcrysden. also make sure that the path to the
> xcryden execution script is added to your $PATH variable, so that you
> can run it from anywhere. If you have any further issues let me know,
>
> Best Regards,
> Matic
> --
> Matic Poberznik
> J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
>
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