Some tips on installing auto

Some tips on installing auto for the short course Oct 20/21 2011 at CWI

No 3D plotting (PLAUT04 etc) is required.
One general (not only windows) pitfall you may have encountered is the error (upon excecuting "make")
!$ USE OMP_LIB
1
Fatal Error: Can't open module file 'omp_lib.mod' for reading at (1): No such file or directory
This can be resolved by turning off parallel ability: Instead of "configure" run "configure --without-openmp".

Installation on Windows

A detailed website with instructions.
This is probably still the best. Below are some alternatives that may be helpful.
Another website with some instructions.
Links of things to install for Windows (note the versions may not be good for all Windows versions):
1. Python 2.7.2,
2. NumPy,
3. MatPlotLib,
4. MinGW
In MinGW the home directory, where the auto package needs to be installed, is a bit hidden. It is something like C:MinGW/msys/1.0/home/[USERNAME], and it is useful to create a link to it for easy access.
Note that you also need to install a reasonable editor to work on the fortran files. One option is Emacs, another WinEdt.
To "source" the auto configuration automatically upon starting MinGW, create a text file named ".profile" in your MinGW home directory and put the command
"source $HOME/auto/07p/cmds/auto.env.sh" into it.
If it cannot find Python, add the line "export PATH=/c/PythonXX:$PATH" to the .profile file, where XX is the version of Python and /c/PythonXX/ is the path on your machine to it.
Under Windows 7 the plotting does not work (sometimes?) with the error:
AttributeError: can't set attribute
Fatal Phyton error: PyEval_RestoreThread: NULL tstate
One semi-solution is to install Python 2.6 and set this in the .profile file. Then run "auto -i" once (it will probably give an error message). Then run auto as usual. The plots may come without the buttons, though. A workaround is to install some virtual linux, but I do not know details.