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Coot for Windows

Coot's Memorial

Coot for Windows

WinCoot and CygCoot
Memorial to Paul's Coot...
WinCoot 0.3.3.1 (ZetaA) availabe now!!!!
bug fixed 0.3.3 (Zeta)!!

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What is WinCoot?

WinCoot is a build of Coot (using MinGW and GTK) which runs native under Windows (without cygwin emulation). Almost all Coot functions are working. I provide binaries with an installer and you can get it from the download page. Or just have a look at a screenshot or another one or even another one.
N.B. WinCoot might look slightly unfamiliar if you know 'normal' Coot since it uses a newer GTK version.

WinCoot screen shot

Any known problems?

WinCoot might crash on you unexpectedly (like a lot of other Windows programs...), but WinCoot was tested successfully on Win2000, WinNT and Windows XP. There is some known bugs, see here.
For the usual coot FAQs see Paul's page.
CygCoot should run fine, although it might crash occasionally (it shouldn't though). In case it does report bugs to Paul/me/the coot mailing list.

Which coot version do I get?

Currently I provide Coot version 0.3.3 for WinCoot. I don't think I can keep up with Paul's speed in releasing new versions, but we are getting fatser. So please be patient.
A tarball for Coot v.0.0.18 is provided for CygCoot (discontinued)!

How fast/slow can I expect it to be?

CygCoot can be slow, especially on older, slower machines. Processor speed seems to be everything as it runs via cygwin emulation!!!! This is fixed in WinCoot. Here is some Windows Coot benchmarks (please be aware that it depends on the graphics card as well as various other factors not mentioned here):


 OS
 Computer
 FPS
WinCoot
 XP
 3 GHz, 2GB RAM ~700

XP
 2 GHz, 512MB RAM ~75

Win 2000
 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM ~7.5
CygCoot
 XP
 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM
 ~3.5

Win 2000
 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM
 ~1.5

N.B. This some 'standard' setting I use for testing and can be 'speeded' up by customising your setting! Furthermore I personally couldn't use the full openGL acceleration on my old laptop computer for WinCoot (Win 2000 benchmark). So expect it to be much faster... (as can be seen already...)

How does the scripting work?

It seems that only python scripting is working (and compiling) under Windows. For more information see here.

When can I expect a newer WinCoot version?

WinCoot version 0.3.3 work is done, so I will tackle the next one. WinCoot 0.1.x (?) is included it in the new CCP4 release (6.0.x), but I don't know what the plans are to update this.

What is CygCoot (discontinued)?

CygCoot is Coot for cygwin under Windows. There is no differences to 'normal' Coot (yet). It can be compiled in the cygwin environment. An autobuilder script is provided and installation instructions can be found here. A warning is given: unless you have a fast processor I recommend not to bother to install it since it will be hardly workable (at least if you are as impatient as me). And another one: since WinCoot is workable now I most unlikely continue with too many (or any at all) updates on CygCoot unless there is an incredible demand...

Last modified 17/08/2007