XCrySDen (Link download) XCrySDen is a crystalline and molecular structure visualization program aiming at display of isosurfaces and contours, which can be superimposed on crystalline structures and interactively rotated and manipulated. It is a useful software for visualizing the output of Quantum Espresso, running on GNU/Linux, has been also ported to Windows (requires CYGWIN). In my case, most of the time I work on Windows, and it's not convenient to use Linux as the primary PC or use a virtual PC. So I try to install XCrySDen on Windows. It is hard work.

This is why I uploaded this TUTORIAL: How to Install XCrySDen on Windows via Cygwin

1. Install XMing (Link download) and RUN

2. Install CYGWIN (Link download) with packages:

tcl-tk, tcl-togl, fftw3, libGL1, xorg-server, bash, bc, coreutils, grep, gzip

less, util-linux, ImageMagick, tcl-tk8.6, tcl-togl, ImageMagick, xinit, mesa

libfftw3_3, libgfortran4, libGLU1, gawk

3. In user folder of Cygwin, copy and untar the XCrySDen package:

untar: tar xvzf {name package}.tar.gz

4. Copy file "libTogl2.0.dll" to ".\cygwin64\bin" directory

5. Edit the ~/.bashrc file (or download here)

export DISPLAY=:0

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib

cd {folder of XCrySDen}

./xcrysden

6. Enjoy!