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So far, MARS is supported on MAC OS and Linux. We may add support for Windows in the near future.
Windows users can follow this tutorial to install Linux OS as a virtual machine, then run MARS in it.
In this tutorial, we will install a Linux OS (Ubuntu 14 LTS) in VirtualBox, and install the necessary software packages in order to build MARS.
1. Download Ubuntu 14 from its website: http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/. Choose 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image (http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso).
2. Download VirtualBox from its official website: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. Choose the right OS host according to your native OS.
3. Create a new virtual machine
a. Start VirtualBox and click New to create a new virtual machine
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b. In the dialog box, choose the operating system you want to install (Ubuntu 64-bit in the example)
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c. Click next and select the amount of memory (RAM) to be allocated to the virtual machine
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d. Create a virtual hard disk using the default setting (VDI file type, dynamically allocated)
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e. Select the file location and size
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4. Install the operation system
a. Select and right-click the virtual machine (Ubuntu in the picture); Click Setting
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b. Go to Storage setup in the Settings dialog box
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c. Select Controller:IDE and click add optical drive icon; Select Choose disk in the pop-up dialog box
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d. Select the Ubuntu ISO image downloaded in the first step (file with .iso extension)
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e. A virtual optical drive loaded with Ubuntu installer should show up. Click OK.
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f. Click start in the main menu to run the virtual machine. A window of the running virtual machine shows up
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g. The ubuntu installer should start autotomatically in the virtual machine window. Click Install Ubuntu.
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h. Finish installation by following the instruction given by the installer.
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g. update the system. Start Terminal, run next two commands:
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get upgrade
5. Install software packages.
a. Install development tools (including GNU C/C++ compilers)
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sudo apt-get install build-essential
b. Install zlib library
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sudo apt-get install zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev
c. Install Open MPI
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sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev
By now, you are ready to build MARS. For details, please see here: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=23.
Special thanks to Weixin, who prepared most of the materials (including all the screenshots) in this post.