Hello everyone, I’m a begineer to Julia! I’m working through the Stokes flow tutorial using Ferrite.jl and encountering an issue specifically on my Windows machine. The example code stokes-flow.jl runs fine on Linux (e.g., Google Colab), but fails on Windows with a Base.IOError. The error occurs d…

One solution is to avoid saving the mesh. That is, replace: # Save the mesh, and read back in as a Ferrite Grid grid = mktempdir() do dir path = joinpath(dir, "mesh.msh") gmsh.write(path) togrid(path) end with simply: # Skip file I/O and convert GMSH data directly to Ferrite Grid grid…

The total code can be found in Ferrite → Tutorials → Stokes flow

Ferrite.jl Stokes Flow Example: Windows-Specific File Locking Issue

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KnutAM May 19, 2025, 4:41am 3

Welcome @sumor !

Unfortunately, Gmsh.jl is still not stable on Windows as far as I know. But it is possible to use WSL.

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Ferrite.jl Stokes Flow Example: Windows-Specific File Locking Issue

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