NEURON Installation on PC under MSWindows

The mswindows version comes in two components. The first consists of neuron.exe, examples, and useful interpreter files.

The second consists of files that are only necessary if you wish to write your own membrane mechanisms using the model description language and compile them into a dll that can be loaded into neuron.exe. You do not need to install this part if you already have a dll file containing the desired mechanisms.

0.) Is win32s installed?

NEURON.EXE is a 32 bit program (it also works under Windows NT) and under mswindows requires a recent version of the win32s dll. If you are not sure you have it, download the pw1118.exe file into an empty temporary directory, execute it and follow the resultant readme instructions.

1.) Install neuron.exe

This part is packaged into two files called nrndisk1.exe and nrndisk2.zip. Installation consists of downloading these two files into an empty temporary directory, executing nrndisk1.exe, and then executing the resultant install.exe.

README for installing neuron.exe
download the nrndisk1.exe file (900 KB)
download the nrndisk2.zip file (1.45 MB)
Notes, bugs, oddities with respect to mswindows

2.) Install mknrndll (optional)

This part is only necessary if you need to compile model descriptions of membrane mechanisms into a dll (dynamically loadable library). If you already have dll files containing the mechanisms you need, you do not need to install this part. It is packaged into two files called nrndisk3.exe and nrndisk4.zip. Installation consists of downloading these two files into an empty temporary directory, executing nrndisk3.exe, and then executing the resultant install.exe. This part contains a gcc compiler and enough utilities to build dll's from model description files.

README for installing mknrndll.bat
download the nrndisk3.exe file (1.2 MB)
download the nrndisk4.zip file (1.4 MB)
Notes with respect to mswindows


This is the ftp directory containing the above files.
ftp.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/mswin
M. Hines