{"id":176079,"date":"2021-01-07T02:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T02:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/176079\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T02:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T02:30:47","slug":"176079","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/176079\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: UDF compilation problem in ANSYS Fluent 2020 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello<br \/>\nAs I had commented on an earlier similar post, I had the same issue and this is how I fixed it. Following these steps, you don&#8217;t have to launch fluent from command prompt!<br \/>\nInstall Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition with C++ options (ANSYS 2019 doesn&#8217;t support newer versions of VS such as MSVS 2019)<br \/>\nGo to Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables<br \/>\nGo to the bottom section named &#8216;System variables&#8217; and then double-click to open &#8220;Path&#8221;<br \/>\nThere, create 4 new entries (mentioned below as steps 5, 6, 7, 8) by clicking on &#8216;New&#8217;:<br \/>\n%SystemRoot%\\system32<br \/>\n%SystemRoot%<br \/>\nC:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.16.27023\\bin\\Hostx64\\x64 (This is the location for &#8220;nmake&#8221; in MSVS 2017 Community Edition)<br \/>\n<Drive letter>:\\<ANSYS Installed Folder Name>\\ANSYS Inc\\v194\\fluent\\ntbin\\win64 (This is for ANSYS 2019, your version number will change according to the one you have installed)<br \/>\nMake sure that the entries in steps 5 &#8211; 8 are at the top most rows of the path variables, i.e., entry 5 should be in row 1, entry 6 should be in row 2, entry 7 should be in row 3, and entry 8 should be in row 4. You can change their row positions using &#8220;Move Up&#8221; option in the system variables dialog box<br \/>\nClick OK and exit out of the Path variables dialog box, as well as exit out of the Environment variables dialog box and System properties dialog box<br \/>\nRestart system<br \/>\nStart FLUENT. In the FLUENT Launcher, click on &#8216;Show More Options&#8217;<br \/>\nMake sure that the working directory location is the location of your folder containing your UDF and then click OK to launch FLUENT<br \/>\nNow you will be able to build and load your UDFs.<br \/>\nHope this will also help in your issue.<br \/>\nCheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-176079","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello As I had commented on an earlier similar post, I had the same issue and this is how I fixed it. 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