[ALPS]: Windows installation

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ALPS Installation (problems installing ALPS packages)

Describe your question or issue

I am trying to install ALPS from binaries on Windows.

When I run the command to install pyalps, the process always terminates when it tries to build the wheel. I ran task manager alongside this process and the WSL CPU and memory usage spikes when the process terminates. I checked the computer for viruses (there are none), it is just WSL that is using up all the resources. I have 16 GB of RAM and 477 GB of storage, and I’m using AMD Ryzen 7 CPU. I turned off all firewalls to ensure they didn’t interfere with the process. WSL also usually disconnects soon after the process terminates. Is there a way to prevent it from terminating?

Environment (if installation or code‑related)

Windows 11

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[Ooolab]

"pip install pyalps" requires a tiny amount of memory usage during the installation.
But for the purpose of testing, can you try to create a config file called ".wslconfig" in your home directory. The file should contain the following lines:

[wsl2]
memory=12GB
swap=32GB
processors=4

The purpose of these lines is to limit the memory usage of the installation process, although it might take a bit longer to install the package. If your problem was really caused by the memory usage, this should fix it.

After you create the file, exit the wsl terminal:

wsl --shutdown

Then you restart the wsl terminal to apply the setting and pip install pyalps again.