Installing and using RNAfold in Windows

eupath has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm a self taught perl-er, using it mainly for bioinformatics research. I need to be able to call functions from the RNAlib in the Vienna RNAfold package, but can't for the life of me get this to work on Windows (RNAfold is written in C/C++, and most documentation is for UNIX/Linux). Anyone know how this is done?

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Re: Installing and using RNAfold in Windows by aitap (Curate) on Mar 04, 2013 at 20:49 UTC
In order to run `./configure; make; make install`, you need at least a working POSIX-compatible shell, a compatible version of Make and a working compiler. I'm not sure whether `ppm install MinGW` provides a POSIX shell (bin/sh or bin/bash); shell is not provided by default in Strawberry Perl. Try installing MinGW (is you use ActivePerl), MSYS, adding its `bin` directory to the PATH environment variable and running `sh configure`. Maybe it will run properly and create the `Makefile`s to run `make` on. You can also install Cygwin which can download all the necessary utilities (bash, automake, make, gcc, perl) by itself (and for itself) and build the required program just like under Linux. Sorry if my advice was wrong.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Installing and using RNAfold in Windows by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2013 at 22:55 UTC
you should get msys, you can get it from mingw.org or here	[reply]