Opensees for Windows 8.1

[sentosab]

dear Moderator,

I've tried to install the last version of opensees in Windows 8.1 but It failed. Is there any advice for me to solve this problem?

Thank you before.

[fmk]

how did the installation fail?

[sentosab]

The Tcl Program could not be installed in folder C:/Program Files/Tcl or C:/Program Files (86x)/Tcl . After that, I tried to install in C:/Tcl , Tcl was succesfully installed but the opensees didn't work.

[fmk]

OpenSees is built assuming Tcl is where it is on our machines. the program wil not work unless it is there. why can't you put it there.

[sentosab]

Thank you for your advice. Sorry, I didn't know about that before. Now, it is working.

[jmorelos]

I have Windows 8 and for some reason, I am unable to run Opensees with the Tcl folder located under C:\Program Files\Tcl. When I change the location to C:\Tcl, it works fine.

[fanseagull]

fmk wrote:
> OpenSees is built assuming Tcl is where it is on our machines. the program
> wil not work unless it is there. why can't you put it there.

I came across the same problem as the other guys, however, Tcl still couldn't work after it was installed successfully in C:/Tcl. When I tried to open any .tcl file, it displayed like "invalid command name 'wipe' while executing 'wipe' (file 'C:\Tcl\Exam01.tcl' line 1)" , which seems like it cannot read the files. And I asked another guy who use Win8, the same situation happened.

[jcalvarez]

My friend had this problem as well. If you are still trying the way to install the Tcl to "C:\Programfiles\Tcl" you need to right click the install shortcut and click run as administrator. Then all the options when installing at the location will be opened.