Installation instructions for Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP

It is possible to install deal.II on Microsoft Windows systems as well, using either the Cygwin or MingW environments that provide most of the Unix like features for the Windows system as well (such as ``perl'', or ``make''). You simply have to run the ``./configure'' script on the shell and follow the installation instructions in the ReadMe file. Also, you need to include the deal.II/lib path in your PATH environment variable (e.g. by editing your .bash_profile file or the Windows registry).

As far as we know, the only point to consider is that you can't use the ``make'' distributed with MingW, but have to use the GNU ``make'' from CygWin. If you should encounter other problems, we would love to hear about it and will try to provide fixes for them.

For more details, please have a look at the FAQ section.