Pymatgen (for generating DOS) - Windows 8 Instructions

Another way to do band diagrams using pymatgen. You'll need a few other things like cygwin and platmatlib to actually get pymatgen going. For full instr;uctions on actually generating the band diagram and DOS plots, use this graphene example here: https://www.nsc.liu.se/~pla/vasptools/

Rough Notes...

First, install Cygwin

In install include: 

(in the link it will tell you that you need gcc4, but this is the default gcc now)
 

http://pymatgen.org/installation.html#windows-tested-on-win7-64-bit

https://github.com/materialsproject/pymatgen

 

Also, add all python packages and lapack and blas and any c libraries…

Install matplotlib

 

Download matplotlib from sourceforge and unzip in Cygwin directory (wherever), to install it…

 

If you get a freetype error….

http://berlinbrowndev.blogspot.com/2012/01/python-matplotlib-plotting-setup-for.html

 

 

Apt-get in cygwin is apt-cyg

import matplotlib

matplotlib.use('agg')

http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/Error-when-running-code-on-remote-machine-how-can-I-overpass-this-td19784.html

since running remotely you want to turn on ‘agg’ so that it doesn’t try to launch in the shell