Fail to create the Run folder in tutorial

Asked by dliu

I'm using Windows 10 and downloaded the MadGraph5 from the official site. I was following the steps in the tutorial. After successfully running the tutorial and generating p p > t t~, things went wrong when I tried to run "output MY_First_MG5_RUN". It showed the errors like these, and I don't quite understand it.

str : Failed to clean correctly MY_First_MG5_RUN:
         ['./bin\\internal\\clean_template'] fails with no such file or directory

Could somebody help?

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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
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So clearly is the issue that some of the path are not windows compatible.
(you see the first path separator is "/" while on windows they use "\" as directory separator.
This is not suprising since we do not support windows system.

Our advise for windows is ... to install linux. A proper distribution (with dual boot) is likely better than the WSL solution but WSL is known has working (but you need to install a lot of dependency via yum/dnf/apt get since WSL distribution are laking a lot of tools/library)

Cheers,

Olivier

> On 15 Aug 2023, at 22:20, dliu <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> New question #707651 on MadGraph5_aMC@NLO:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/mg5amcnlo/+question/707651
>
> I'm using Windows 10 and downloaded the MadGraph5 from the official site. I was following the steps in the tutorial. After successfully running the tutorial and generating p p > t t~, things went wrong when I tried to run "output MY_First_MG5_RUN". It showed the errors like these, and I don't quite understand it.
>
> str : Failed to clean correctly MY_First_MG5_RUN:
> ['./bin\\internal\\clean_template'] fails with no such file or directory
>
> Could somebody help?
>
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