Native Implementation


Richard Crozier has created XFEMM, a set of Linux command line tools that implement FEMM magnetics functionality. See:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfemm/

Running FEMM on Linux via Wine


FEMM can be run on Linux machines using Wine. Performance of the program is about the same running on Linux with Wine compared to running natively on Windows. If Wine is not already installed on your system, installation instructions for Wine are at http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo

FEMM 4.2


FEMM 4.2 works correctly with Wine. The most recent Linux compatibility testing used:


Ubuntu Screenshot

OctaveFEMM


Amazingly enough, OctaveFEMM works under Linux and will allow a native Linux implementation of Octave to interact with FEMM 4.2 running under Wine. In FEMM 4.2, the OctaveFEMM package is automatically installed as part of the regular FEMM 4.2 distribution.

OctaveFEMM on Ubuntu Screenshot

To get OctaveFEMM running correctly, the directory with the OctaveFEMM .m files must first be added to Octave's search path. If yours is a typical Wine installation, the correct directory can be added by using following at the Octave command line:

addpath("~/.wine/drive_c/femm42/mfiles");
savepath;


Then, the openfemm.m function in the OctaveFEMM function needs to be modified in two ways:


Here is an example modified version of openfemm.m where the paths have been defined for the typical Wine installation:

openfemm.m
function openfemm(fn)
    global ifile ofile HandleToFEMM

    rootdir=tilde_expand('~/.wine/drive_c/femm42/bin/');

    try
        pkg load windows
    catch
    end
   
    if (exist('actxserver'))
        HandleToFEMM=actxserver('femm.ActiveFEMM');
        callfemm([ 'setcurrentdirectory(' , quote(pwd) , ')' ]);
    else
        % define temporary file locations
        ifile=[rootdir,'ifile.txt'];
        ofile=[rootdir,'ofile.txt'];

        % test to see if there is already a femm process open
        try
            [fid,msg]=fopen(ifile,'wt');
        catch
            [fid,msg]=fopen(ifile,'w');
        end
        fprintf(fid,'flput(0)');
        fclose(fid);
        sleep(0.25);
        try
            [fid,msg]=fopen(ofile,'rt');
        catch
            [fid,msg]=fopen(ofile,'r');
        end
        if (fid==-1)
            unlink(ifile);
            system(['wine "',rootdir,'femm.exe" -filelink'],0,'async');
        else
            fclose(fid);
            unlink(ofile);
            disp('FEMM is already open');
        end
    end

   % make sure that FEMM isn't in FEMM 4.0 compatibility mode,
   % otherwise some commands won't work right
   callfemm('setcompatibilitymode(0)');


Another working approach is to install a Windows version of Octave and run it via Wine. This approach allows ActiveX to be used for interprocess communication, which is much faster than communication via temporary files.

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