Dear Roland,

Yes, that worked.
I noticed my windows machine didn't have any c compiler at all. I installed the visual studio compiler through Visual Studio 2019, and now SimulationTools works perfectly using it.

Thanks for the help!
Best,
Atul

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 11:05 AM Roland Haas <rhaas@illinois.edu> wrote:
Hello Atul,

not really a solution (and I do not use Mathematica a whole lot), but
apparently on can change what compiler is used and possible the issue
is that the "wrong" one is found.

See eg this commit:

https://bitbucket.org/simulationtools/simulationtools/commits/2e578b0d31e365648097a3463c3e29ccbcd6b19f

and maybe a similar change would help or at least point to MMA
documentation on how to disable the compiler altogether.

Yours,
Roland

> Dear all,
>
> I am testing the output figures on Binary black hole gallery examples,
> specifically the curvature scalars images using SimulationTools.
>
> As suggested in the page with available scripts I am using
> 'SimulationTools' application on Mathematica. When I try to load
> SimulationTools by entering the command '<< SimulationTools`' on nb or
> kernel I get the following error messages and would like help in fixing
> them:
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - - - - - - -
> CCompilerDriver`CreateLibrary::nocomp: A C compiler cannot be found on your
> system. Please consult the documentation to learn how to set up suitable
> compilers.
> Compile::nogen: A library could not be generated from the compiled function.
> CCompilerDriver`CreateLibrary::nocomp: A C compiler cannot be found on your
> system. Please consult the documentation to learn how to set up suitable
> compilers.
> Compile::nogen: A library could not be generated from the compiled function.
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - - - - - - -
>
> I have installed SimulationTools and h5mma and loading h5mma happens just
> fine (without any errors).
> Specifications: I am using Mathematica 12 on Windows 10 (not WSL).
>
> As suggested in mathematica stack exchange
> <https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/79237/step-by-step-instruction-to-install-c-compiler>
> I
> installed windows sdk
> <https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk/>
> (although I did not remove visual c++ as suggested as I wasn't sure if that
> would break any other things.)
>
> In the ET meeting today I was suggested to use linux, WSL or a virtualbox
> by Roland, Bill and Steve so will be doing one of those, but would prefer a
> solution on windows.
>
> Could someone please help me with this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> best regards,


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