Manual installation

Instructions to install mpich manually.

1. Download the source distribution - mpich.nt.1.2.5.src.exe or mpich.nt.1.2.5.src.zip
2. Unzip the distribution
3. Copy mpd.exe from the mpich bin directory to a local directory on each node.
4. Install mpd on each node by executing mpd -install. See section Quick reference for full details and install options.
5. Make sure the mpich dlls are available to all mpich applications. You can do this in two ways.

One - copy mpich.dll and mpichd.dll to all the nodes and make sure they are in the system path. For example, the setup program copies them to the windows system32 directory.

Or two - place the dlls in the same location as the executables. If you put the executables in a shared directory, then place the mpich dlls there with them. If you copy the executables to each node, copy the mpich dlls also.
6. Compile your applications and link with the libraries in the mpich lib directory. See section Programming Tips for programming options.
7. Run your applications using mpirun from the mpich bin directory.