Issue to run LAMMPS

Hi All,
I am trying to use your software, LAMMPS, for molecular dynamics simulation. But I have problem to run the code. I tried two ways
(1) From the below site
http://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html#tar
to download a tarball with a stable version. Follow the manual, in the prompt after type cmd under Start->run, I type ‘make’ under the directory lammps-30Jul16\src. But it shows the below error:
‘make’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

(2) I also tried the Pre-built Windows executables after downloading the latest version for 64-bit Windows from
http://rpm.lammps.org/windows.html

Follow the manual 2.6, I try to run the code by type lmp_serial in the command prompt under the directory
C:\Program Files\LAMMPS 64-bit 20160902

But it shows:
WARNING on proc 0: Cannot open log.lammps for writing <…/lammps.cpp:298>
LAMMPS <27 Aug 2016-ICMS>
WARNING: OMP_NUM_tHREADS environment is not set. Defaulting to 1 thread. <…/comm.cpp:90> using 1 OpenMP thread per MPI task.

I have tried older versions for above both ways. But it seems that the results are same. By the way, currently I am working on a desktop computer with 64-bit Windows 7 system.

Could you please help me to figure out any problem I made?
Thank you very much!

Meilu

Hi All,
I am trying to use your software, LAMMPS, for molecular dynamics simulation.
But I have problem to run the code. I tried two ways
(1) From the below site
http://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html#tar
to download a tarball with a stable version. Follow the manual, in the
prompt after type cmd under Start->run, I type 'make' under the directory
lammps-30Jul16\src. But it shows the below error:
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.

the official LAMMPS distribution comes as source code only and needs
to be compiled. the error message your get (have you tried google on
this?), tells you that you are missing the required tools for
compiling LAMMPS. this is no surprise, since you are obviously using a
windows machine, and windows by default doesn't have any compilers
installed and particularly not a unix-like build environment.

(2) I also tried the Pre-built Windows executables after downloading the
latest version for 64-bit Windows from
http://rpm.lammps.org/windows.html
Follow the manual 2.6, I try to run the code by type lmp_serial in the
command prompt under the directory
C:\Program Files\LAMMPS 64-bit 20160902
But it shows:
WARNING on proc 0: Cannot open log.lammps for writing <../lammps.cpp:298>
LAMMPS <27 Aug 2016-ICMS>
WARNING: OMP_NUM_tHREADS environment is not set. Defaulting to 1 thread.
<../comm.cpp:90> using 1 OpenMP thread <s> per MPI task.

I have tried older versions for above both ways. But it seems that the
results are same. By the way, currently I am working on a desktop computer
with 64-bit Windows 7 system.

yes. that seems proper. what did you expect?
LAMMPS is a text mode program and requires to fed an input file, and
if you don't provide one, it is expects the input to be typed/copied
directly into the text window.

Could you please help me to figure out any problem I made?

you didn't read through the "Getting started" section properly.

axel.