Cross Platform Radiance Installers Now Available

cool. this will no doubt save many new radiance users hours of time!

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On May 1, 2012, at 9:23 AM, "Guglielmetti, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

Greetings simulationists (and apologies for the cross postings),

NREL has completed a project aimed at making Radiance more accessible to
building simulationists, regardless of what platform they are using. This
will benefit users of the OpenStudio SDK and applications, as well as
anyone interested in using the powerful raytracing software but reluctant
to learn how to compile code.

Working with Greg Ward and Kitware, we have modified the Radiance source
tree to allow us to build Radiance easily for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We
Offer installers of the latest (HEAD) release, and we will update these
every
two weeks. These installers also include a GUI version of rvu (that also
runs on Windows!). Instructions for downloading and installing these
packages
can be found at the following page:

openstudio.nrel.gov/getting-started-developer/getting-started-radiance

We hope these prove useful for many in the Radiance and general building
simulation communities.

We will add instructions for using the CMake build system on your own
systems soon.

Happy raytracing!

- Rob

Rob Guglielmetti IESNA, LEED AP
Commercial Buildings Research Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
15013 Denver West Parkway MS:RSF202
Golden, CO 80401
303.275.4319
[email protected]

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oops. i thought i was just replying to Rob there. classic mistake. -kk

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On May 1, 2012, at 9:23 AM, "Guglielmetti, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

Greetings simulationists (and apologies for the cross postings),

NREL has completed a project aimed at making Radiance more accessible to
building simulationists, regardless of what platform they are using. This
will benefit users of the OpenStudio SDK and applications, as well as
anyone interested in using the powerful raytracing software but reluctant
to learn how to compile code.

Working with Greg Ward and Kitware, we have modified the Radiance source
tree to allow us to build Radiance easily for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We
Offer installers of the latest (HEAD) release, and we will update these
every
two weeks. These installers also include a GUI version of rvu (that also
runs on Windows!). Instructions for downloading and installing these
packages
can be found at the following page:

openstudio.nrel.gov/getting-started-developer/getting-started-radiance

We hope these prove useful for many in the Radiance and general building
simulation communities.

We will add instructions for using the CMake build system on your own
systems soon.

Happy raytracing!

- Rob

Rob Guglielmetti IESNA, LEED AP
Commercial Buildings Research Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
15013 Denver West Parkway MS:RSF202
Golden, CO 80401
303.275.4319
[email protected]

_______________________________________________
Radiance-general mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-general

This is great news!

Thanks so much!

Randolph

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On 2012-05-01 16:23:43 +0000, Guglielmetti, Robert said:

Greetings simulationists (and apologies for the cross postings),

NREL has completed a project aimed at making Radiance more accessible to
building simulationists, regardless of what platform they are using. This
will benefit users of the OpenStudio SDK and applications, as well as
anyone interested in using the powerful raytracing software but reluctant
to learn how to compile code.

Working with Greg Ward and Kitware, we have modified the Radiance source
tree to allow us to build Radiance easily for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We
Offer installers of the latest (HEAD) release, and we will update these
every
two weeks. These installers also include a GUI version of rvu (that also
runs on Windows!). Instructions for downloading and installing these
packages
can be found at the following page:

openstudio.nrel.gov/getting-started-developer/getting-started-radiance

We hope these prove useful for many in the Radiance and general building
simulation communities.

We will add instructions for using the CMake build system on your own
systems soon.

Happy raytracing!

- Rob

Rob Guglielmetti IESNA, LEED AP
Commercial Buildings Research Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
15013 Denver West Parkway MS:RSF202
Golden, CO 80401
303.275.4319
[email protected]

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Randolph M. Fritz

Hi Rob,

Very nice to have current Radiance version on Windows.

I've installed binary setup file in Windows and set PATH and RAYPATH
environment variables as suggested on web page.
I have few other Radiance installations in Windows (inside Daysim for
example), so I've experimented with PATH and RAYPATH variable, and put path
to new Radiance installation as first in both variables and I get next
message when I try to run any program:

*The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration
is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line
sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.*

I also tried to remove all paths related to other Radiance installations
from PATH and RAYPATH varialbes, but still getting the same error message.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks in advance,
Marija

Let's move this thread to the radiance-dev list. You should subscribe there if you want to respond to code/compile issues.

All help is appreciated in sorting these issues out.

Thanks!
-Greg

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From: James Lee <[email protected]>
Date: May 3, 2012 6:15:15 AM PDT

On 01/05/12, 17:23:43, "Guglielmetti," Robert
<[email protected]> wrote regarding [Radiance-general] Cross
Platform Radiance Installers Now Available:

NREL has completed a project aimed at making Radiance more accessible to
building simulationists, regardless of what platform they are using. This
will benefit users of the OpenStudio SDK and applications, as well as
anyone interested in using the powerful raytracing software but reluctant
to learn how to compile code.

Working with Greg Ward and Kitware, we have modified the Radiance source
tree to allow us to build Radiance easily for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

...but harder for Solaris. cmake building fails when making Version.c:

...
[ 62%] Generating /src/rt/Version.c
CMake Error: Error processing file:/src/rt/create_version.cmake
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
cd /work/build/radiance/32/rt && /opt/XXXX/bin/cmake
-DVERSION_OUT_FILE="/src/rt/Version.c"
-DVERSION_IN_FILE="/src/rt/VERSION" -DVERSION_GOLD="/src/rt/Version.c" -P
/src/rt/create_version.cmake
dmake: Fatal error: Command failed for target `/src/rt/Version.c'
Current working directory /work/build/radiance/32
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
dmake -f rt/CMakeFiles/radiance.dir/build.make
rt/CMakeFiles/radiance.dir/depend
dmake: Fatal error: Command failed for target
`rt/CMakeFiles/radiance.dir/all'
Current working directory /work/build/radiance/32
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
cd /work/build/radiance/32 && dmake -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 rt/all
dmake: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

It looks like it's lost "radiance_SOURCE_DIR".

James.