Windows XP

FSL 3.1 is the first time FSL has been released for Windows, and is a fairly untested beta release. It will probably not run well on machines with older hardware and operating systems; we recommend having at least 512MB ram and using XP. We strongly suggest that you run the FEEDS evaluation suite before starting to do your own analyses.

FSL 3.1 will run under Windows XP once you have installed a third-party package called Cygwin, which provides a unix-like environment and interface to Windows. Programs that run under Cygwin are "real native" Windows programs but typically run within the unix-like directory structure that lives in C:\cygwin, which is accessible to all Windows programs. Please note that we cannot offer any support relating to the installation or running of Cygwin!

Cygwin is extremely easy to install:

You now have Cygwin installed and should have a Cygwin icon on the desktop which opens a unix-like shell where you can type commands. You are now ready to install FSL: