Summary: Autodock on Microsoft Windows platform

From: Roger Hull <rogercc;at;mooncott.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Summary: Autodock on Microsoft Windows platform
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 23:14:34 +0000
I had two replies to my question (below):
 (1) Yes, I did compile Autodock 3.0.5 for Windows (98) using djgpp,
 http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ , almost without (additional)
 problems.
 IIRC the only thing that had to be changed was to remove the file lock
 code. I did this as I wanted to see if a core dump I got was system
 specific.
 The scripts in the Autodock package however use a whole range of
 different shells, which might make their transfer to windows quite
 cumbersome.
 Mikael Johansson
     University of Helsinki
     Department of Chemistry
     http://www.chem.helsinki.fi/
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 (2) Of course, under Cygwin, but the autodock compilation have some
 problems with the memory access - however, this problem occurs also
 under SUSE Linux (but, when compiled under RedHat and run on Susue - no
 problems).
 (Author replied directly to me and has not [so far] responded to my
 request for his agreement for me to include his name here. Cygwin is a
 freeware UNIX emulation package, see http://cygwin.com.)
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 I can also report my own experience:
 (3) I have successfully compiled all of the Autodock 3.0.5 under UWIN
 (another UNIX emulation package, free for academic use, see
 http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/) and Microsoft
 Visual c++ v6.
 I have made only limited tests of the compiled modules, but at least the
 main components (autogrid3 and autodock3) run successfully under Windows
 NT v4.0 on an IBM PC clone with the supplied test data 3ptb. I will give
 more details in a separate message when I have done more testing. UWIN
 (and I think Cygwin) also provide support for running UNIX shell scripts
 and UNIX utilities such as awk, so I am hopeful that the Autodock
 scripts will run under UWIN.
 If anyone is interested in more details of compiling Autodock for UWIN,
 please contact me.
 Regards,
 Roger Hull
 rogercc;at;mooncott.demon.co.uk
 >
 >Has anyone tried compiling Autodock for Microsoft Windows (NT, 98, 2000,
 >etc.) ? (Or do you know of anyone who has ?) I have been looking at
 >doing so for Autodock version 3 using UWIN (a UNIX emulator for
 >Windows).
 >