Problem with BST and Windows 7

Bugs
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Hello all,

I’ve had some troubles using BST with windows 7, I was using it with XP and had no problem.
Every time BST starts asks me something about a compiler (with XP this never happened). Then, when I want to compute a realistic head model using OpenMEEG, it starts downloading it but it pops up the following error: error#-1073741515:

Is BST compatible with Windows 7? Do I need any driver for this?

Thank you for your help in advance!

Federico

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Hi Federico,

I don’t know about the general BST problem. But regarding OpenMEEG
is seems the binaries I ship are not compatible with windows 7.
Is it win7 32 or 64 bits? I may be able to find a windows 7 system
to check it.

thanks for sending us feed back.

Alex

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It’s win7 64 bits what I’m having troubles with.

Thanks for your help!

Federico

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Hi Frederico,

sorry for the delay.

Can you try with this version:

http://openmeeg.gforge.inria.fr/download/OpenMEEG-2.1.dev-win64-x86_64-cl-shared.tar.gz

?

you should update the automatic downloaded openmeeg commands with these ones.

Alex

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Hi，Federico
Did you fix the error?
Maybe, you should download msvcr100.dll and copy it to the folder including msvcr80.dll.

Screen

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if adding this dll fixes the problem, let me know so I can add it to the installer.

Alex

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Hi Alex,
Sorry for the delay, I tried usin OpenMEEG in other computer using 64 bits Win7 and it worked with no problem. Anyway I will try doing what you suggest in the other machine and I’ll let you know how it worked.
Thank for your answer!!
Federico

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hi Federico,

that’s good news. Is the other machine with a problem also running windows 7 64bits?
I so, could the problem be due to an uninstalled windows program like visual studio?

Alex

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Hi Alex,

Yes, that machine is also running win7 64 bits. It is my thesis’ director computer, so I don´t know what programs are installed or uninstalled, but that could be the problem. When I have access to the computer again I will check that and try the other solutions you told me before, I’m sure it’s a very simple problem. Before trying with other computer, I was concerned that openMEEG wouldn’t work under win7, but that’s clearly not a problem.

Thank you!

Federico

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Hi Federico,

Sorry for the delay, I was away for a long time. I just had a new laptop with windows 7, and Brainstorm/OpenMEEG seems to work just fine with both the 32bits and the 64bits versions of Matlab. But I have many development programs installed on my computer, so I may have some shared libraries (.dll files) installed that you don’t have. Try what Alexandre suggested (downloading msvcr100.dll in C:\windows\system32), and let us know if it fixes the problem.

There might be other issues of access rights on Windows 7, when the user is not the administrator of the machine. I need to investigate this problem deeper.

There is another problem regarding Matlab on any version of Windows 64bits: the C++ compiler (those messages you see when brainstorm starts). Matlab 32bits is distributed with a free C++ compiler, lcc-win32, that you would see listed if you type “mbuild -setup” in the console of Matlab 32bits. Matlab 64bits requires the user to install separately another compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ Express.
This compiler is used only if you are using some very specific functions of Brainstorm. I will soon remove the compiler detection from the startup and prompt for it only when needed, because a growing number of people are using 64bits systems and it’s annoying everybody. You should not worry about this.

Cheers,
Francois

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for windows 7 with no visual studio installed, it was recently reported that the following package is required to have the missing DLLs:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=14632

hope this helps.

Best,
Alex

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Hi, Francois,

I still got the problem when try to use openMeeg to built the BEM head model, the [I]OpenMEEG error #-1073741515[/I], and my system is window 7, 32 bit. I’m looking forward for all the solutions and saw your suggestion and typed “mbuild -setup” , it showed a new error

Error: No file names given.
??? Error using ==> mbuild at 189
Unable to complete successfully.

Is that why i can’t successfully run the openMeeg? and what should I do to fix it ? Thank you so much if you can replay.

Cheers,
Ronghua

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Hi Ronghua,

The command “mbuild” is related with the compilation of mex-files in Matlab.
OpenMEEG does not require Matlab to be able to compile anything, mbuild is not used. So no, it is not directly related.

However, if “mbuild -setup” crashes when you run it on your computer, it definitely means that something is not installed properly…
Have you installed the “Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)” ?

Alex: another idea on how to fix the problem?

Francois