Re: [ADMB Users] failed installation

[Weihai Liu]

1. try to install admb on c:\admb instead of "program file" folder, admb doesn't like spaces in the directory.

2. put c:\gnu\gcc\bin on path.

3. it seems admb10 was build on gcc4.5, which means your gcc345 was not on target, you need gcc4.5 or later.

weihai

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Heather Bowlby <heather...@yahoo.ca> wrote:

Hello,
I am a bit sheepish writing this because I have been successful at installing ADMB in the past.  I am using Windows (32 bit)
I installed one of the older versions of the compiler - gcc345.zip and unzipped the files into c:\gnu\gcc (as suggested)
To my path, I added ;c:\gnu\gcc so the whole line looked like:
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SystemRoot%\ServiceDesk;C:\gnu\gcc
Then I tried to install version 10.0 of admb because I didn't want the ADMB-IDE environment.
I used all of the default settings during installation

Opening the ADMB command prompt (MinGW GCC 4.5.0)
The first message is:
Set ADMB Home directory to C:\Program Files\ADMB
The network path was not found

Even though I can navigate to: C:\Program Files\ADMB on my computer

I can change the directory to access the simple example
C:\Program Files\ADMB> cd examples\admb\simple   gives
C:\Program Files\ADMB\examples\admb\simple>
When I try to run the program    >admb simple
It does the **** parsing: simple.tpl
**** compiling: adcomp  simple
But after it writes the simple.cpp file, I get
'g++' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Operable program or batch file.
Error: Failed to build executable

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Heather Bowlby

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[Ian Taylor]

Hi Heather,

The installation methods and instructions are in a state of flux, so please don't be sheepish about writing when something doesn't work.

In addition to Weihai's good suggestions, I will add that you can run the installer for the ADMB-IDE and then ignore or delete the IDE (Emacs) part, leaving behind command line access to ADMB.

-Ian

[Heather Bowlby]

Thank you very much!  In the end, I used all of your suggestions and got everything loaded.  I will definitely be joining the members list for other tips and tricks on ADMB.

Heather

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From: Ian Taylor <ian.t...@noaa.gov>
To: Weihai Liu <liu...@msu.edu>
Cc: Heather Bowlby <heather...@yahoo.ca>; "us...@admb-project.org" <us...@admb-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:38:12 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMB Users] failed installation