NEURON Installation on PC under MSWindows
The mswindows version comes in two components. The first consists of
neuron.exe, examples, and useful interpreter files.
The second consists
of files that are only necessary if you wish to write your own membrane
mechanisms using the model description language and compile them into a
dll that can be loaded into neuron.exe. You do not need to install this part
if you already have a dll file containing the desired mechanisms.
0.) Is win32s installed?
NEURON.EXE is a 32 bit program (it also works under Windows NT) and under mswindows
requires a recent version of the win32s dll.
If you are not sure you have it,
download the pw1118.exe file
into an empty temporary directory, execute it and follow
the resultant readme instructions.
1.) Install neuron.exe
This part is packaged into two files
called nrndisk1.exe and nrndisk2.z1. Installation consists of downloading
these two files into an empty temporary directory, executing nrndisk1.exe,
and then executing the resultant install.exe.
README for installing neuron.exe
download the nrndisk1.exe file (1.3 MB)
download the nrndisk2.z1 file (1.45 MB)
If your browser attempts to read the above nrndisk2.z1 file as a text file
then either modify your browser options so it downloads files with .z1 extensions
or else download
nrndisk2.zip
and RENAME IT TO nrndisk2.z1 because IT IS NOT A ZIP file and the
installer will not work unless the file is called nrndisk2.z1
Notes, bugs, oddities with respect to mswindows
2.) Install mknrndll (optional)
This part is only necessary if you need to compile model descriptions of
membrane mechanisms into a dll (dynamically loadable library). If you already
have dll files containing the mechanisms you need, you do not need to install
this part. It is packaged
into two files called nrndisk3.exe and nrndisk4.zip. Installation consists
of downloading these two files into an empty temporary directory, executing
nrndisk3.exe, and then executing the resultant install.exe. This part contains
a gcc compiler and enough utilities to build dll's from model
description files.
README for installing mknrndll.bat
download the nrndisk3.exe file (1.2 MB)
download the nrndisk4.zip file (1.4 MB)
Notes with respect to mswindows
Associating Hoc Files with NEURON.
in Windows 3.1
in Windows 95 and NT
This is the ftp directory containing the above files.
ftp.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/mswin
M. Hines