These instructions are to install CXASAP on Windows. You can also install it on a Linux virtual box, which will give you access to more functionality. But if you are just using CXASAP for refinement and structural analysis, this probably won’t be necessary. If you want to install it in a linux environment, or on a Mac, see the CXASAP extended installation guide here for instructions.
Pre-setup
You will also need platon, pwt, shredcif and shelxl in your path environmental variable of your computer.
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ShredCIF (http://shelx.uni-goettingen.de/download.php )
Platon (http://www.platonsoft.nl/platon/ ) - even if you have platon installed, update to the latest version. Make sure you have both platon.exe and the pwt.exe.
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