[Gate-users] Re : GATE on Windows XP

[Nicholas Forwood]

Thanks Samuel. In the end that is precisely what I did with VirtualBox and Ubuntu. The installation was seemless except for the myriad of library packages I had to install however luckily Ubuntu has a system for installing and tracking packages. 

>>> Samuel BURG <samuel_burg at yahoo.fr> 17/08/2009 4:54 pm >>>
Hi, 


The easiest way to run GATE in Windows is to install ... linux ...
What I want to say is that you should consider installing QEMU / VirtualBox / VMware or an other vitualisation software, then create a linux virtual machine, install a Linux OS (you should use Ubuntu 8.4 +, x86) and then install GATE.

This work if you have at least 1GB Ram, so in fact any recent (or even not so recent) computer.
The perormace lost is about ... 1-5% ... not so much, an realy less than cigwin or thinks like that.

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Samuel Burg


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De : Nicholas Forwood <nforwood at stvincents.com.au>
À : gate-users at lists.healthgrid.org 
Envoyé le : Lundi, 6 Juillet 2009, 8h04mn 06s
Objet : [Gate-users] GATE on Windows XP

I noticed in the users survey that 8% of users are on Windows XP. Is anyone on
this list able to say concretely which steps they followed to get GATE working on
Windows XP?

Thus far I have successfully setup GEANT4 9.1.p03 through CYGWIN and Visual c++
(as per the instructions on the GEANT4 website) but I am having trouble compiling
GATE. I have tried without and without ROOT and LMF installed but I still get
compile errors relating to a variable "M_PI" and a function "stricmp" or something
like that. Since it is improbable that the authors of this software made the
simple error of not declaring something and I alone have spotted it, it would seem
that I have done something more fundamentally wrong. 

If someone has had a positive experience of using GATE on Window XP it would be
great if you could share it.

Thankyou

Nicholas Forwood

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