Troubleshooting downloading software

[Sara Ferrari]

In general, it should not be necessary to edit environment variables manually. Installation instructions can be found here: https://simtk-confluence.stanford.edu/d ... ng+OpenSim. Be sure to run the installer using an account with admin privileges.

Thanks Thomas for your reply.
But the installation guide link you provided refers to 3.x version. 4/4.1 versions doesn't have "Installation options" step, where you choose to add OpenSim directory to system path :/
Also I'm using my laptop which has only one account and it does have admin privileges.
I am wondering what's causing the problem here??

Thanks for your help.

[Ayman Habib]

Hi Sara,

The installation of OpenSim 4.0+ is very similar to 3.3 except that it doesn't change the path environment variable and in general you don't need to change your path unless you're planning to use advanced features (API) or scripting environments (Python, Matlab).

Since Microsoft dropped support for Windows 7, it's very possible that the runtime libraries (typically provided by Microsoft) that are needed to run OpenSim or any C++ program are not available on your machine. You maybe able to check this out by running the dependency walker from https://www.dependencywalker.com/ on the library that's producing the error to see what it's looking for.

Hope this helps,
-Ayman