Although FeatFlow is developed and maintained in a Unix-like operating
system, FeatFlow 1.3 and later support the installation in a Windows
98/2000/XP compatible environment. There are generally
two possible ways to use FeatFlow in Windows:
1.) Using CYGWIN Unix emulator package
The CYGWIN Unix emulator package can be downloaded at
http://www.cygwin.com.
This package emulates a Unix-like environment with all necessary tools
(compilers,...) that are necessary to successfully compile and run
FeatFlow. We recomment this type of usage, since it supports directly
the installation scripts that are used on all our machines.
2.) Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 IDE with Intel Fortran Compiler
This type of installation should only be used by advanced users.
Most of the FeatFlow modules contain Visual Studio IDE project files
that can be opened and directly compiled. There's no installation
script provided for this type of installation, nor are the project
files optimized for highest speed efficiency.
Remark: The support for Visual Studio IDE will always be
beta/experimental! This IDE allowes the user to take direct influence
on all compiler parameters. This makes experimenting easy but makes
the installation also more vulnerable to mistakes, so there's no
guarantee that it works.
Using FeatFlow 1.2d or an earlier version under Windows is not recommended
but possible. For this purpose, it's necessary to patch the original installation.
The patch files can be found below. Before installing the patch file you
should read the manual. It describes, which modifications have to be made to
the computer, how CYGWIN and FEATFLOW are installed, which traps you have to be aware of,
how the XFree86 package can be installed to use GMV and how the SUN JAVA package has to be
installed to support the DeViSoR module.
You can download the following files:
| File | Content |
|---|---|
| featflowwin1.2d.zip | The FEATFLOW for Windows patch file, version 1.0, for FEATFLOW 1.2d. Download this file and unzip it as described in the manual. |
| devisorwin1.0.zip | Patch file for the DeViSor module version 1.0 to work with Windows. |
| featflowwin1.2d.ps.gz | The manual to the patch file above, in postscript format. Download and read this file if you are using GSView or another postscript viewer. |
| featflowwin1.2d.pdf | The manual to the patch file above, in PDF format. Download and read this file if you are using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| featflowwin1.2dmanual.zip | The same manual, in compilable LATEX format. Download this file only if you want to recompile the manual. |