Installation on MS Windows (g77 version)

Getting the code

First make a folder for the code. Then, depending on what you want, select files from the following list and put them in that folder.

• The source code with my bug fixes. Save the link to your code directory, unzip and it will create a folder "md" with many subfolders. (If you want just this code, you will need to compile by copying all relevant files from all the subdirectories together in a single folder, and compile main.f with your fortran compiler. If you want my basic improvements, do not copy the files together, but go to the next item.)
• The actual program directory with my mods. If you unzip this, it will create a folder "mdexe" in addition to folder md.
• My tools. To use my tools, you will also need ranlib from netlib. For your convenience, I have a copy of that one too here. Unzip both archives, it will create several folders. (You do not need the previous two items to get my tools.)

Running the code

To run the program

• Create a coord.d file using the separate program chiral found in the chiral folder (if you downloaded the tools), maketube, or other. Put it in the mdexe folder. (There is a diamond.d file in md, but that one crashes for some reason.)
• Edit input.d in the mdexe folder to set the run parameters.
• Run main.exe. Or, to avoid the screen disappearing on termination, run main.bat instead.
• Examine output.d (and other files) for the results.

Making changes

If you need to make changes in the Brenner code (increasing storage, changing parameters, ...), you will need to rebuild the main.exe executable. You can do that as follows:

• Download and install the full Gnu gcc compiler collection for Windows.
• Open a DOS window by running cmd or command, and activate fortran in the window using "c:\gcc-2.95.2\mingw32.bat".
• Cd to the mdexe folder and remake the program using "g77 -I. -o main.exe main.f". (Note the point behind -I.)

If you need to do things my tools do not, there is a program in the coordmod folder called custom.f that you can customize yourself to do them. To create the custom tool from the code you created, use "make custom" in the DOS window.