Difficulty Configuring Mineos on Windows with Cygwin

[yfcai666]

Description:​​
I'm attempting to install Mineos on Windows 11 using Cygwin following the official manual's instructions (Sections 2.2 and 2.3). After successfully running ./configure --prefix=$HOME/cig, the make command fails with the following error:

[make all-am
make[1]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/d/mineos'
f77 -g -c -o minos_bran.o minos_bran.f
minos_bran.f:
MAIN:
wtable:
rotspl:
modout:
model:
detqn:
sprpmn:
fprpmn:
derms:
dermf:
eifout:
gauslv:
sdepth:
sfbm:
fsbm:
zknt:
baylis:
grav:
startl:
steps:
drspln:
dsplin:
rprop:
tprop:
rkdot:
intgds:
fpsm:
spsm:
rps:
tps:
bfs:
remedy:
fprop:
sprop:
sfbdry:
fsbdry:
match:
ortho:
svd:
f77 -g -o minos_bran.exe minos_bran.o
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/12/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: minos_bran.o: in function MAIN__': /cygdrive/d/mineos/minos_bran.f:119:(.text+0x94): undefined reference to lnblnk_'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/12/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: /cygdrive/d/mineos/minos_bran.f:124:(.text+0x1ab): undefined reference to lnblnk_' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/12/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: /cygdrive/d/mineos/minos_bran.f:131:(.text+0x2fa): undefined reference to lnblnk_'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
f77 -g -c -o syndat.o syndat.f
syndat.f:
MAIN syndat:
udc:
f77 -g -c -o fdb_eigen.o test -f 'fdb/fdb_eigen.f' || echo './'fdb/fdb_eigen.f
fdb/fdb_eigen.f:
open_eigen:
close_eigen:
write_eigen:
Cannot open file fdb_eigen.h
/usr/bin/f77: aborting compilation
make[1]: *** [Makefile:554: fdb_eigen.o] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/d/mineos'
make: *** [Makefile:313: all] Error 2
]

​​Environment:​​
Windows 11 Build 22H2
Cygwin version [ 3.6.0-1 ]
gcc version: gcc (GCC) 12.4.0
Fortran compiler: GNU Fortran (GCC) 12.4.0
​​Request:​​
Could the community help identify what might be causing this build failure? I've attached the full config.log and complete make output for reference.

[bangerth]

I have no background with Mineos and so really don't know how to address this particular issue. But for other projects, we have generally recommended that people on Windows machines use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to compile codes that were traditionally written for Linux. WSL gives you an environment within Windows that looks like a regular Linux machine where you can install packages the same way as you would on Ubuntu. Most Linux command-line software packages then compile more or less out of the box on WSL and can be run on Windows; in fact, many software packages that have a Ubuntu or Debian package can just be installed using apt install ....

[anowacki]

@yfcai666 I can imagine that it may be important to you to be able to edit the source code and recompile Mineos on Windows. I can't help you with that I'm afraid.

However, if all you want is a working set of Mineos programs on Windows, then one option is to get them from the binary distribution mechanism used by the Julia language, because all the Mineos programs are cross-compiled for all supported platforms (including Windows).

An easy way to get access to the programs is to install Julia, then add the RunBinary.jl package. An example session:

julia> import Pkg

julia> Pkg.add("RunBinary")

julia> using RunBinary

julia> @run Mineos_jll.minos_bran
 input model file:

The above (minus package installation) could be written up into a driver script which accepts input on stdin for the Mineos programs, to e.g. specify inputs and outputs. That could be the end of your use of Julia. You could also copy the Mineos binaries and required libraries that ship with Julia to a directory elsewhere and run the programs e.g. from Windows Terminal.

The Mineos.jl Julia package wraps Mineos and currently can be used for eigenmode calculations with minos_bran (but not yet anything else—contributions welcome!), using seismic models specified by SeisModels.jl.

[JarettBakerDunn]

Hi there,

When I was compiling mineos in a Docker container running Ubuntu I found that I need to use the
"-fallow-argument-mismatch" flag in order to get mineos to compile. It seems like you are using GNU fortran within Cygwin, which is the same compiler I was using, so I would suggest running this command when attempting to build mineos:

make F77='gfortran -fallow-argument-mismatch';

This should cause the makefile to compile every fortran file using this flag.

If this doesn't work, CIG also hosts a docker container with a working version of mineos which might be useful to you. You can find that container here.

Hope this helps.
-Jarett

[yfcai666]

@anowacki @bangerth @JarettBakerDunn
Thank you for your detailed guidance. After encountering persistent platform-specific challenges in the Windows environment , I ultimately achieved successful configuration and execution within the Ubuntu ecosystem.