Install SU2 in Windows — in just 2 Steps

While installing an Open Source software

1. Open Windows Powershell 🧑‍💻
2. Just paste the following code:

# Download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_buildtools.exe -OutFile vs_buildtools.exe Start-Process .\vs_buildtools.exe -ArgumentList ‘ — add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools’ -Wait

# Download and install the latest version of Python Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.0/python-3.10.0-amd64.exe -OutFile python-3.10.0-amd64.exe Start-Process .\python-3.10.0-amd64.exe -ArgumentList ‘/quiet InstallAllUsers=1 PrependPath=1’ -Wait

# Download and extract SU2

Download and extract SU2

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/su2code/SU2/archive/refs/heads/master.zip -OutFile master.zip Expand-Archive .\master.zip -DestinationPath C:\SU2

# Set up the environment variables $env:Path += ‘;C:\SU2\bin;C:\Python310’ [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(‘PYTHONPATH’, ‘C:\SU2\bin’, ‘User’)

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And it’s done! 🎊