SALOME on Windows (discussion)
Hello!
I'm trying to figure whether it is reasonable to use SALOME (particularly its geometry, preproc and postproc capabilities) as a platform for a commercial CAE/FEA application. One of the main requirements is to be able to run the whole application on Windows, and unfortunately it seems to be a rather big technical obstacle right now.
So my main question is how to build the whole SALOME on Windows from Git repository (latest version) and run it? Are there any instructions already written/published?
And I'd like to discuss: is SALOME platform on Windows ready for production use? How many people develop and support the Windows variant? Can I hope that if bugs and issues are discovered someone would help to fix it?
Is it possible to compile 64-bit version of SALOME on Windows? Is it possible to integrate 64-bit components into 32-bit SALOME?
Currently I'm studying SALOME 5.1.4 for tests on Windows.
Best regards,
Andrew
Hello,
We tested SALOME on Windows at our company this summer. Some trainee engineers were our beta-testers.
SALOME Windows is almost ready for daily use. The manipulations on the 3D view are almost as fast as on Linux, and much comfortable than with Salome on Linux through NX.
The only bug compared to the Linux version is not to be able to select sub-shapes in the 3D view to explode or to create a geom group. It's not a problem if you're working with parametric studies by scripting the construction of the shape in python, which is highly recommended if you work on complex shapes.
The 2 Go 32bit-limit was reached in the middle of the project, so they had to use Salome on Linux 64 bits. The study worked well on Linux without any change in the python script but the working path to save the mesh.
Concerning the GIT repository, it has barely changed since V5.1.5 release. The last modification was on december 1st. I wanted to provide nightly builds on linux from this repository, but I don't know if it's worth the while since new bug fixes seem to be only commited to the V6 branch.
Christophe
Previously Christophe Bourcier wrote:
Hello,
We tested SALOME on Windows at our company this summer. Some trainee engineers were our beta-testers.
SALOME Windows is almost ready for daily use. The manipulations on the 3D view are almost as fast as on Linux, and much comfortable than with Salome on Linux through NX.
The only bug compared to the Linux version is not to be able to select sub-shapes in the 3D view to explode or to create a geom group. It's not a problem if you're working with parametric studies by scripting the construction of the shape in python, which is highly recommended if you work on complex shapes.
This bug is fixed in 5.1.5 version (not published yet by lack of time). I hope to publish it next week.
The 2 Go 32bit-limit was reached in the middle of the project, so they had to use Salome on Linux 64 bits. The study worked well on Linux without any change in the python script but the working path to save the mesh.
Concerning the GIT repository, it has barely changed since V5.1.5 release. The last modification was on december 1st. I wanted to provide nightly builds on linux from this repository, but I don't know if it's worth the while since new bug fixes seem to be only commited to the V6 branch.
There are still minor modifications on sources for windows version. So if you take the git sources, you will not be able to compile them on windows. This problem is due to the fact that windows version is still experimental and is not nightly build for the moment.
More-over, in windows version, I add some small features which have not been integrated for the moment.
Christophe
Regards, Erwan.
This is a very good new, thank you for the correction of this bug!
Previously Erwan ADAM wrote:
This bug is fixed in 5.1.5 version (not published yet by lack of time). I hope to publish it next week.
Hello all,
I've seen that a 32 bit official version of SALOME 6.4.2 is available.
Are you planning or already developing a 64 bit version?
Thank you.
Hello,
The work on porting of SALOME to Win64 platform is ongoing, however for the current moment no exact planning for this version can be done. The main difficulty is that some of 3rd-party pre-requisite products used by SALOME do not provide Windows 64bit support 
Regards,
Vadim.
Previously Sergio Anza wrote:
Hello all,
I've seen that a 32 bit official version of SALOME 6.4.2 is available.
Are you planning or already developing a 64 bit version?
Thank you.
I have noted that in the current 6.6.0 version of the program HEXABLOCK module is absent. Is this a bug or a feature of the Windows version? BTW there is no information about this fact in the Release Notes.
