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Errors in Installing Gromacs 4.5 in Windows 7 with Cygwin

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Well, I am a Gromacs user, I am thinking about installing gromacs in windows, thus I could do some simple analysis more easily since my daliy work is all in Win 7 and SSH shell. So I did some research online, and found some websites talking about this topic. But I didnit find a very clear way to do so. Then I tried to install Gromacs 4.5.5 by myself in my HP Prodesk, which has Win 7 64-bit OS with Cygwin. Firstly, I tried to install FFTW 3.3.4, and things went quick well. $ tar zxvf fftw-3.3.4.tar.gz $ cd fftw-3.3.4 $ ./configure --prefix=/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/user/software/fftw-3.3.4 --enable-float --enable-shared $ make $ make install So far, everything was okay. Then, I downloaded Gromacs-4.5.5.tar.gz and copy to installation folder. And I unzip it and configure it, following by  "make -j 4", which gave me errors. Thus I added some commands in ./configure step. Later, I tried the following commands and still some error massage. $./configure --disable-