1. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 AliEn package for Windows users Artem Harutyunyan 1,2,3 Arsen Hayrapetyan 1,2,4 1 Yerevan Physics Institute 2 Armenian e-Science Foundation 3 State Engineering University of Armenia 4 Yerevan State University

2. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 Contents  Progress in the AliEn client software (version 1.32-14) port to Windows since the last report of Artem Harutyunyan at Alice off-line meeting (15.07.2004)  AliEn distributions for Linux and Windows  AliEn setup.exe for Windows ( http://cern.ch/hartem/AliEn-1.32-14-setup.exe,http://cern.ch/hartem/AliEn-1.32-14-setup.exe http://cern.ch/hartem/README.htm )http://cern.ch/hartem/README.htm

3. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 Status of the port reported by Artem at Alice off-line meeting (15.07.2004)

4. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 Solved problems  Problem with the lack of functionality of some bash utilities (e.g. ps, grep) on Windows has been resolved by writing wrappers for these utilities  Windows case-insensitivity caused problem with Perl module names. It has been resolved by adding to the class AliEn::SE::Methods a method (called MSSExactMatch ) which forms the exact name of the module to be loaded

5. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 Still not ported:  and - persisting problem  GUI  API } their port was not considered yet

6. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 Today status

7. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 AliEn distributions for Linux and Windows Perl (version 5.8.0) Active Perl (version 5.8.0) Grid-proxy-* Windows Grid-proxy-init (WGPI) GNU utilities (bash, etc) Dynamic link libraries (.dll) Dynamic link libraries (.so) Linux Windows

8. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 Alien setup.exe for Windows Is created using Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) tool

9. Alice off-line week, 14.09.2004 AliEn setup.exe for Windows: details  Installs AliEn client in the predefined directory c:\opt\alien, as well as creates directory trees c:\tmp\*, c:\home\* and c:\dev\* (in case they are absent)  Creates a file called Environment to initialize variables by reading Windows Registry key values (example of a key for the hostname of machine: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ Parameters\Hostname)