From 0399a542c0b6046568c19ae28841363f6e5f7a14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Hogan Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:49:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add section on Windows installation (#781) --- doc/docs/Installation.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/docs/Installation.md b/doc/docs/Installation.md index 2190f15ef..48703f8f1 100644 --- a/doc/docs/Installation.md +++ b/doc/docs/Installation.md @@ -136,3 +136,7 @@ You are done, and can now run Meep (Scheme interface) just by typing `meep`. You To build the latest version of Meep from source on macOS Sierra, follow these [instructions](https://www.mail-archive.com/meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu/msg05811.html). +Installation on Windows +---------------------------- + +Native Windows installation is currently unsupported. The recommended procedure is to install Ubuntu using the [Windows Subsystem for Linux](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10). This gives you access to a bash terminal running on Ubuntu from within Windows. From there you can install the Conda packages as described above. The drawback is that you can't see plots from matplotlib (though saving them to disk and opening them from Windows works fine). The easiest way around this is to add the `jupyter` package to the `conda create ...` command. This will allow you to run a [Jupyter notebook](https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) in the browser, and from there you can visualize plots interactively.