# Installation on Windows11

**URL:** <https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/installation-on-windows11/8501>\
**Category:** User discussions\
**Tags:** installation-error\
**Created:** [March 4, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/installation-on-windows11/8501 "2024-03-04T23:00:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![timhockswender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@timhockswender](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/timhockswender)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/installation-on-windows11/8501/1 "2024-03-04T23:00:56Z")

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GROMACS version:2024-1  
GROMACS modification: Yes/No No  
Here post your question  
Attempting to install via VisualStudio leads to several Cmake errors.  
A fatal one:Cannot open include file: ‘unistd.h’: No such file or directory.  
This is correct, its not anywhere assocoated with gromacs.  
Should it be?  
Has the install been done in recent time? YouTube videos are out of date.  
Suggestions(other than WSL)?

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**Author:** ![shataisheng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@shataisheng](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/shataisheng)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 9:08am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/installation-on-windows11/8501/2 "2024-03-06T09:08:41Z")

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I followed this video “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkVxWD58N8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkVxWD58N8)”  
There is no problem during the compiling stage but my simulation stucked at the enenrgy minimization stage and got no result  
By the way, Gromacs works perfectly on WSL

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**Author:** ![MagnusL](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/gromacs.bioexcel.eu/magnusl/32/2380_2.png) [@MagnusL](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/MagnusL)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 11:56am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/installation-on-windows11/8501/3 "2024-03-06T11:56:23Z")

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It sounds similar to [Calculations do not start after launching gmx mdrun (#4956) · Issues · GROMACS / GROMACS · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/issues/4956). We are looking into it.

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**Author:** ![timhockswender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@timhockswender](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/timhockswender)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/installation-on-windows11/8501/4 "2024-03-06T19:57:25Z")

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I watched the video as well but:

1. the first step to extract the tarball failed
2. looking ahead, this video doesn’t have the setup for version 2024.1 that involves python  
Any advice appreciated.  
Tim