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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Anna,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I had the same (or similar) problem once and if I remember correctly I needed to adjust my registry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the </span>“<span lang="EN-US">known problems</span>”<span lang="EN-US">McStas webpage at the very bottom they say:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mcstas.org/download/install_windows/">http://www.mcstas.org/download/install_windows/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US">
<b>If you are not able to start any simulation from mcgui</b> - only getting back the mcrun --help or the text "press any key to continue", your Perl is likely not registered access all commandline parameters. This can be remedied by
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Starting the regedit.exe program <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US">Searching for keys with content C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
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<span lang="EN-US">Ensure that any entry like that includes a final %* like this:<br>
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\perl.exe\shell\open\command = "C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Could you try to check if your registry entries are correct as shown above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Mirko.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mcstas-users-bounces@mcstas.org [mailto:mcstas-users-bounces@mcstas.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Kjær Willendrup<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 26, 2014 2:58 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Anna Fedrigo<br>
<b>Cc:</b> mcstas-users@mcstas.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mcstas-users] problems with the c compiler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Anna, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I guess that you are using the Desktop links to mcgui and / or the mcstas environment scripts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1)<span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>Using the McStas environment link, what do you get when issuing<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">in the terminal? Does this include c:\strawberry\perl\bin ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2)<span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>Is there in fact a perl.exe located in c:\strawberry\perl\bin ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 25 Sep 2014, at 18:25 , Anna Fedrigo <<a href="mailto:anna.fedrigo@fi.isc.cnr.it">anna.fedrigo@fi.isc.cnr.it</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I installed the new version of McStas on a windows machine and it seems like the c compiler is not recognised. The error message I get is "gcc" is not an internal or external
recognised command.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I changed the folder strawberry\perl\bin to full control but the problem still remains. Do you have any suggestion?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks for the support,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Anna<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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