How to Install the Julia version of femwell

[zmxCatBug]

Hello @HelgeGehring
Thank you for this great optical mode calculating tool.
Since I'm trying to find modes of an anisotropic dielectric waveguide, I would like to install a Julia version. I've already install through pip, but I'm not able to run the Julia example code. Am I supposed to install a Julia package of femwell? If so, how can I install it? (It seems that "add Femwell" doesn't work.)

Thank you.

[HelgeGehring]

Hey @zmxCatBug,
happy to hear that you like the femwell :)

I didn't yet make a julia package out of femwell, but we should definitively do that soon!

right now i think you can install it using add https://github.com/HelgeGehring/femwell.git (didn't test this yet, would be great if you can report if you get some errors or if it works)

I'll have a look on how to make a julia package in the next days!

[zmxCatBug]

Thank you. I succeeded in installing it in this way!

[nikosavola]

This seems to be still missing from the docs. Would be nice to have the command to run shown in https://helgegehring.github.io/femwell/install.html

[duarte-jfs]

I was trying to get the julia example running, but I was not able to get the packages running properly since I'm running on windows. Apparently there is a known issue (link 1, link 2) with compiling the MUMPS package on windows machines. (Just posting here in case someone else bumps into this)

[nikosavola]

I was trying to get the julia example running, but I was not able to get the packages running properly since I'm running on windows. Apparently there is a known issue (link 1, link 2) with compiling the MUMPS package on windows machines. (Just posting here in case someone else bumps into this)

For now, have you tried running on WSL?

[duarte-jfs]

Not yet. Mainly because I've never set up WSL and have no clue how to work with linux, so it'll take a while. But I'll keep it in mind in the future. I was just curious on how much of computing time improvement would be to use julia in femwell

[oz99]

Hi all,

Just following up on this thread as I'm new to using femwell with Julia :)

What is your preferred method of communicating between python and julia? From the docs I see that you call python (using PyCall) from the julia code but it is also possible to call julia from the python code (using JuliaCall). Do you have a preference between either and are there any significant pros/cons between these methods?

Thanks