[Gmsh] versions higher then 1.53 do not work

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Alfonso Medina wrote:
> I have gmsh running on an XP machine that recently got the service pack. 
> I use the latest binary version and it works ok. I find that it will 
> hang on large files. Other than that, it works great. What I do is to 

Interesting: could you tell me a bit more about when it hangs? (Does it
happen when you load large post-processing files or large meshes? In
binary or ASCII format?)


> save GMSH and the  flow solver I use, OpenFlower in  a USB pen drive. I 
> then use a Knoppix CD to run linux on my machine. It works 
> fantastically. Night and day between cygwin and a real linux on CD. 
> Knoppix works. Ubuntu live CD also runs GMSH but not OpenFlower because 
> the CD comes without some deps.
> 
> What is your experience between gmsh binary and gmsh compiled? I notice 
> no difference.
> 
> Alfonso
> 
> 
> milan.hokr at email.cz wrote:
>> Me and my colleagues have problems with running GMSH on Windows XP. 
>> If I try to run gmsh.exe, nothing happens (or the application start and immidiately ends). I guess this problem arised after installing Service pack 2 in Win XP. And it happens for version from 1.53 (with cygwin1.dll of larger size 1.1M instead of 0.9M in older version).
>> I did not find any other cygwin*.dll file in my system.
>>
>> Is there anybody with this problem. How to solve it?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Milan Hokr
>>
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