The OOMMF developers rely on reports from OOMMF users to alert them to problems with the software and its documentation, and to guide the selection and implementation of new features. See the Credits for instructions on how to contact the OOMMF developers.
The more complete your report, the fewer followup messages will be required to determine the cause of your problem. Usually when a problem arises there is an error message produced by the OOMMF software. A stack trace may be offered that reveals more detail about the error. When reporting an error, it will help the developers diagnose the problem if users cut and paste into their problem report the error message and stack trace exactly as reported by OOMMF software. In addition, please include a copy of the output generated by tclsh oommf.tcl +platform so that the OOMMF developers will know the details of your platform configuration.
Before making a report to the OOMMF developers, please check the following list of fixes for known problems:
<30654> pimake 1.x.x.x MakeRule panic: Don't know how to make '/usr/include/tcl.h'
This means the header file tcl.h is missing from your Tcl installation. Other missing header files might be tk.h from the Tk installation, or Xlib.h from an X Windows installation on Unix. In order to compile OOMMF, you need to have the development versions of Tcl, Tk, and (if needed) X Windows installed. The way to achieve that is platform-dependent. On Windows you do not need an X Windows installation, and when you install Tcl/Tk be sure to request a ``full'' instllation, or one with ``header and library files''. On Linux, be sure to install developer packages (for example, RPMs) as well as user packages. Other platforms are unlikely to have this problem.
Parts of OOMMF are written in C++, and exceptions have been part of the C++ language for many years. If your compiler does not support them, it is time to upgrade to one that does. OOMMF 1.2 requires a compiler capable of compiling source code which uses C++ exceptions.
This is known to occur on RedHat 5.2 systems. The auto_ptr definition in the system STL header file memory (located on RedHat 5.2 systems in the directory /usr/include/g++) is disabled by two #if statements. One solution is to edit this file to turn off the #if checks. If you do this, you will also have to fix two small typos in the definition of the release() member function.
ANSI C++ forbids declaration `XSetTransientForHint' with no type
On many Solaris systems, the header files for the X Windows system are not ANSI compliant, and gcc complains about that. To work around this problem, edit the file config/cache/solaris.tcl to add the option -fpermissive to the gcc command line.
Error launching mmLaunch version 1.x.x.x: couldn't execute "...\omfsh.exe": invalid argument
This cryptic message most likely means that the pre-compiled OOMMF binaries which were downloaded are for a different version of Tcl/Tk than is installed on your system. Download OOMMF again, taking care this time to retrieve the binaries which match the release of Tcl/Tk you have installed.
Error in startup script: Neither Omf_export nor Omf_export_list set in
The file ext/net/omfExport.tcl may be missing from your OOMMF installation. If necessary, download and install OOMMF again.