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After setting new environment variables on Windows, you may find the newly added variables are not ready to use. Usually you have to restart or at least logout and logon to enable them. There are some small software tools existing on Internet. They solve the problem by modifying the registry. Is this problem really that tough?

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To compile Lammps, we needs fftw 2.x library. The latest is fftw 3.x which is not compatible. Go here and download fftw2.

If you don’t have root privilege on the server, meaning you cannot install the library to the default system path (/usr/lib,/usr/include), you have to  specify a prefix before making the library. Simply do this in the source directory, “./configure –prefix=/your_parth/fftw2″. Then “make” and “make check”, “make install”. These commands compile and install fftw library under the path you give.

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