[femm] Re: FEMM For Linux?

[Angelo Rossi <vpqro@xxxxxx>]

Angelo Rossi wrote:

> David Meeker wrote:
>
> > Angelo Rossi wrote:
> >
> > > > There's no linux version of femm
> > >
> > > Yes I'm interested :) but I have no soruce code :(
> > >
> > > > (unless someone is interested in trying to port it).
> >
> > If you are seriously interested in porting it, I can send you the source to
> > it. I guess that I haven't put up the source partly because most users on the
> > win9x/nt platform don't care about the source or don't have the tools to mess
> > with it anyhow. I have also wanted to maintain some quality control versions
> > that are released. I suppose that I'm also embarrassed about some of the
> > inelegant things that it does internally in the 2.1 version. However, I have
> > been working on a 3.0 version that adds on a lot of useful functionality and
> > includes some internal house cleaning that eliminates some of the biggest
> > kludges.
> >
> > Anyhow, I don't know much about the mechanics of porting a code to run under
> > linux. The program has a pretty heavy reliance on some stuff that seems
> > relatively Visual C++ and Windows specific. I am aware of Wine
> > (http://www.winehq.com/), but I don't know whether or not it is sufficiently
> > developed to run the femm executables under linux, or whether winlib is
> > complete enough to compile the source as a set of native X applications.
> >
> > Do you have any insight on how difficult it would be to do a port?
> >
> > Dave.

> Dear Sir,

> I'm an electrical engineering student in University "La Sapienza" and I'm very
> interested in magnetics.
> I know Visual C/C++ for Windows enough well to develop math applications. I'm
> currently a DevStudio 6.0 registered user , but now I'm looking for a development
> tool under LINUX (e.g. FLUID or GLADE).
> So I 'm very very interested to "put the things work on LINUX" :). I'll thank
> You very much if You would like to send me a copy of FEMM source code.
>
> Angelo Rossi