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+ <title>The deal.II Readme -- Installation Instructions</title>
+ <meta name="author" content="Wolfgang Bangerth <deal@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>">
+ <meta name="keywords" content="deal.II">
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+ <h1>Installation instructions for Microsoft
+ Windows 95/98/2000/NT</h1>
+
+ <p>
+ We have no such system to try, but we have been told that it is
+ possible to use <acronym>deal.II</acronym> on Microsoft Windows
+ systems as well, using either the CygWin or MingW environments
+ that provide most of the Unix like features for the Windows system
+ as well (such as ``perl'', or ``make''). You simply have to run the
+ ``./configure'' script on the shell and follow the installation
+ instructions in the <a href="../readme.html" target="body">ReadMe</a>
+ file.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ As far as we know, the only point to consider is that you
+ can't use the ``make'' distributed with MingW, but have to
+ use the GNU ``make'' from CygWin. If you should encounter other
+ problems, we would love to hear about it and will try to provide
+ fixes for them.
+ </p>
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<li>Linux ELF with gcc 2.95.x;
<li>Sun Solaris 2.5, 2.6, and 7, with and gcc 2.95.x;
<li>IBM AIX 4.2, with gcc 2.95.x (with some restrictions on
- the use of shared libraries);
- <li>A port to Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT is under way,
- using MingW or
- CygWin; one of the things that are already known is that you
- can't use the ``make'' distributed with MingW, but have to
- use the ``make'' from CygWin.
+ the use of shared libraries).
</ul>
Furthermore, for the following list of systems, we have collected
our experiences on separate pages:
<ul>
- <li> <a href="platforms/sgi-irix.html" target="body">SGI
- IRIX64</a> with gcc 2.95.x;
+
<li> <a href="platforms/sgi-irix.html" target="body">SGI
+ IRIX64</a> with gcc 2.95.x;
- <li> <a href="platforms/dec-osf.html" target="body">DEC OSF on
- Alpha</a> with gcc 2.95.x (the same notes probably also apply
- to Linux on DEC Alpha).
+ <li> <a href="platforms/dec-osf.html" target="body">DEC OSF on
+ Alpha</a> with gcc 2.95.x (the same notes probably also apply
+ to Linux on DEC Alpha);
+
+ <li> <a href="platforms/windows.html" target="body">Microsoft
+ Windows 95/98/2000/NT</a>.
</ul>
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