To run Molflow on Windows, do the following:
- Download the latest Windows version (zip file)
- Extract it to any folder (hint: system folders, like C:\ or C:\Program Files aren't recommended: the built-in updater won't have permission to write)
- In the extracted folder, run molflow.exe
- Hint: you might have issues if your system locale is set to have a comma (,) decimal (typically: German Windows installs.) You can change this in Control Panel's "Region" settings.
Requirements:
Recent Molflow versions are developed in Visual Studio Community 2019 on Windows 10. They rely on the Visual C++ 2015 redistributable package (x64 version) and the Universal Windows CRT package.
- The Visual C++ 2015 redistributable is shipped with Molflow (vcruntime140.dll and vcruntime140_1.dll and msvcp140p.dll in the program directory)
- The Universal Windows CRT package is already present on Windows 10, and comes as a Windows Update package on older systems (Windows Vista to Windows 8.1)
If Molflow is not running (missing api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll, for example), do the following:
- Make sure all Windows Update packages are installed (sometimes new are available after restart)
- If not working, you can install manually the specific update package from Microsoft and Visual C++ 2015 redistributable package (x64 version)
- (Recommended only if the above don't work as you don't have administrative rights): download the redistributable package as DLLs and extract them to Molflow's directory