[mcstas-users] Installation on Windows 7 64-bit

[Hussey, Daniel S.]

Mystery solved ... sort of ... using the shortcut on the desktop, things run smoothly ... launching the perl mcgui.pl from the command window gave problems with the directories.  


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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher James Taylor Ridley [mailto:C.Ridley at ed.ac.uk] 
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 9:27 AM
To: Johan Brinch
Cc: Hussey, Daniel S.; mcstas-users at mcstas.org
Subject: Re: [mcstas-users] Installation on Windows 7 64-bit

I have had this issue also. With the Perl mcrun, and through the gui.

Chris

Quoting Johan Brinch <brinchj at gmail.com> on Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:59:27 +0100:

> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Hussey, Daniel S.
> <daniel.hussey at nist.gov> wrote:
>> I copied the instrument file to the \bin directory, and the 
>> instrument compiled, but when I ran the simulation I got another path 
>> can't be found error.
>
> Did it say anything about the path it was looking for? Could sound 
> like a Windows-specific path-bug in mcrun or mcstas.
>
> Do you know if you were using the Perl mcrun or the Python mcrun? Or 
> did you run the compiled instrument directly or from the gui?
>
> --
> Johan Brinch
>
>



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