Inconsistency on the package included in the official Windows build

LAMMPS LAMMPS Installation
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Hi!

In the Section 2.3 of the online documentation there’s a line like this:

The LAMMPS binaries contain all optional packages included in the source distribution except: KIM, KOKKOS, MSCG, PYTHON, ADIOS, H5MD, NETCDF, QMMM, ML-QUIP, and VTK.

but when I click into the download page LAMMPS Windows Installer Repository there is a slightly different list:

The LAMMPS binaries contain all optional packages included in the source distribution except:

  • ADIOS (requires an external library),
  • H5MD (requires an external library),
  • KIM (not fully ported to Windows),
  • ML-PACE (available as plugin),
  • ML-QUIP (not fully ported to Windows),
  • MSCG (requires an external library),
  • NETCDF (requires an external library),
  • PLUMED (not fully ported to Windows),
  • QMMM (only useful when linking to a QM software),
  • SCAFACOS (requires an external library).
  • VTK (requires an external library).

I have no idea but maybe one of them is outdated and should be updated.

Personally I’m looking for the PLUMED package; it’s seemingly included according to the main documentation, but not according to the download page. (It turns out that PLUMED is not included.)

Thanks!

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The documentation on the repository page is the most up-to-date one.
PLUMED is not available on Windows with LAMMPS. I have not been able to build it with the LAMMPS cross-compilation build environment.

These days this is not much of a limitation, since you can always install Linux inside a virtual machine or use the Windows subsystem for Linux and build and use a Linux executable on Windows.

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Thanks for the response.

These days this is not much of a limitation, since you can always install Linux inside a virtual machine or use the Windows subsystem for Linux and build and use a Linux executable on Windows.

I’m going to try it out.