How can I build EGSnrc under Windows?

[1035326373]

Building projects with visual studio: I want to learn the details of the code and do some secondary development. How can I build the project under windows? Is there a tool similar to cmake available?

[rtownson]

We don't use cmake. On linux there is a configuration script that does it all - on windows it's really just the installer gui that is comprehensive. But for development essentially if you make a change in egs++ then in HEN_HOUSE/egs++ do mingw32-make and it will handle the whole egs++ library. If you change the mortran code or an application, then you just need to recompile the application (e.g. in egs_home/egs_app or whichever directory do mingw32-make).

[1035326373]

I think EGSnrc is still not good enough in cross platform. It is necessary to use some good tools to reduce the threshold for new users to join.

[ftessier]

That is what we are doing: using GNU/Linux 🤡 Sorry, could not resist! 🤓

[ftessier]

@crcrewso Have you had a chance to look into WSL integration in Windows 11?

[Kelvin-Ngowi]

this is what i am trying to do at the moment

[crcrewso]

this is what i am trying to do at the moment

Microsoft finally marked WSL as released. If you can find it in the windows store, then

• Install the app from the store
• Launch the new Ubuntu terminal
• Follow the instructions provided for Linux
• You may have to install make, cmake, gfortran, gcc, tcl, tk, and grace
  • sudo apt install make cmake gfortran gcc tcl-dev tk-dev
• From there you should be able to use a text editor like VS code to edit the source files,

The recently released version 1.0 of WSL does a lot of the hard work for free.

[crcrewso]

Not yet. But as soon as windows 11 hits general release it will be on my list ( I don’t have a spare machine to install the beta on currently).

[crcrewso]

@ftessier

@crcrewso Have you had a chance to look into WSL integration in Windows 11?

I have now, it's really easy. I was in the middle of writing up a how-to when Microsoft decided to put WSL on the Microsoft Store. I'll finish writing that up soon.
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