Install NEURON from the commandline non-interactively
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2025 1:37 pm
Our team has a package that requires NEURON. We have test suites set up for Linux, macOS and Windows. For Linux and macOS, NEURON is a simple PyPI dependency. For windows however, the only installation method I have found requires an interactive GUI. This is fine for user installations, but is rather annoying to test. We currently run a self-hosted github runner for Windows testing with NEURON installed, but this is not scalable. For Ci testing on a public repository, it would be useful to have access to a test runner with NEURON installed. To set this up, i'd like to ask:
1. Is it possible to install NEURON on Windows in a non-interactive way? Is there a CLI command availble, or is the interactive GUI the only viable option?
2. Apart from a non-interactive install, is there any other way in which one could test NEURON-based software on Windows in a CI setting?
Kind regards
Bjorge
1. Is it possible to install NEURON on Windows in a non-interactive way? Is there a CLI command availble, or is the interactive GUI the only viable option?
2. Apart from a non-interactive install, is there any other way in which one could test NEURON-based software on Windows in a CI setting?
Kind regards
Bjorge