FDS Installation in Windows 11 - WMIC Error

[hasanraza3]

Hello,

I got an error while installing FDS (version 6.9.1) in a new laptop that came with Windows 11. The error was as follows:

I don't think this is related to a specific FDS version install. This appears to be related to Windows Management Instrumentation Command (WMIC) line which is currently needed to install FDS in a Windows machine. However, the WMIC tool is superseded by Windows PowerShell for WMI, and therefore it now comes as "disabled by default" on new Windows 11 machines. Refer to this blog for more details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/wmi-command-line-wmic-utility-deprecation-next-steps/4039242

I found a temporary solution for installing FDS in Windows 11 machines which have WMIC disabled, that is by installing WMIC as a "Features on Demand (FoD)" service from the settings. For anyone experiencing a similar error/issue, refer to this blog for help (note that it takes a while to install this): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/how-to-install-wmic-feature-on-demand-on-windows-11/4189530

Are there plans to resolve this, i.e., find a workaround which does not require calling WMIC for future FDS installations?

Thank you for your time.

Kind Regards,
Hasan

[gforney]

I'll take a look at this . fyi: we use wmic to find the number of processors the PC has.

[gforney]

type
echo %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%
in a command shell. what does it output? Hopefully a number and not a blank line

[hasanraza3]

Hi Dr. Forney,
Thank you for your response. I did type that command, I got 22, which is the number of my processors.

[gforney]

good. try installing fds using a nightly bundle located at https://github.com/firemodels/test_bundles/releases/tag/FDS_TEST

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[hasanraza3]

Hi Dr. Forney,
Thank you, that worked! The installation was successful. Did you remove the WMIC calling from the installation?

[gforney]

yes. I used this environment variable %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% instead. the installer uses it to determine the number of OpenMP threads to use by default when running the OpenMP version of fds.

[hasanraza3]

I see, thank you very much. My suggestion would be to make this change part of future FDS release if possible so others installing with Windows 11 machines don't run into this.

Kind Regards,|
Hasan

[gforney]

its part of the bundle scripts now . so will be part of the windows bundle going forward

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