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Installation on Windows

LibBi can run under Cygwin on Windows. Use of CUDA to execute code on GPUs has not been tested at this stage.

Step 1: Install Cygwin and packages

Download the Cygwin setup program from <cygwin.org> and run it. During the installation you will be asked to select which packages to install. Choose at least the following:

  • liblapack-devel
  • libqrupdate-devel
  • libboost-devel
  • gsl-devel
  • libnetcdf-devel
  • mingw-gcc-g++
  • autoconf
  • automake
  • libcrypt-devel
  • curl
  • wget
  • perl

Note that, if you later find that you missed a package, simply run the installation program again and add the missing packages; Cygwin will update your install.

Step 2: Install Thrust

Run Cygwin and enter the following at the command prompt:

wget https://github.com/thrust/thrust/releases/download/v1.7.0/thrust-1.7.0.zip
unzip thrust-1.7.0.zip
sudo mv thrust /usr/local/include

Note that Thrust 1.7 is the latest at time of writing. You may like to check the Thrust website <thrust.github.com> to check whether a later version is available and update the commands above accordingly.

Step 3: Install LibBi

Install LibBi as per the instructions in INSTALL.md, running the commands in there from within Cygwin. You can then run LibBi from within Cygwin.

Troubleshooting

Errors while installing other Perl modules

This can be caused if your home directory has a space in its name. To fix this:

  1. Exit Cygwin.

  2. Work out where your Cygwin installation is, usually c:\cygwin64.

  3. Find your home directory, usually in c:\cygwin64\home.

  4. Change the name of your home directory so that it does not contain a space.

  5. Remove the .cpan directory from within your home directory. This deletes your current cpan config, which may contain references to the old name.

  6. Edit the c:\cygwin64\etc\passwd file. Find the line that pertains to your user account, and modify the path to your home directory there.

  7. Restart Cygwin.

FTP errors when installing other Perl modules

This can be fixed by ensuring that the wget package is install in Cygwin.