Plumed-GUI requires a driver executable for your architecture to
be located somewhere in the executable path. The executables are
named plumed (PLUMED ≥ 2, recommended) and driver (PLUMED 1.3).
You can have either or both installed.
If the executables are correctly installed, their location will appear in the "Path to executable" box; the path can be adjusted manually.
Download the code from the PLUMED home page and build it according to the instructions.
Alternatively, install it under the Conda package manager as follows:
conda install -c conda-forge plumed
Plumed-GUI provides a Help > Attempt download of prebuilt Windows driver binaries. menu entry which attempts to get precompiled binaries and to install them in a (system specific) directory. The same directory is temporarily added to the search path. The method requires enough permissions and network access.
If the Windows-specific automated installation above fails, try to
manually download the pre-compiled binaries for Win32
(driver.exe
and
plumed.exe)
and copy them e.g. in c:\windows or in VMD's directory. If all
else fails, you can try to cross-compile yourself, as shown in the
PLUMED-WIN32.md file.