How can I manage to compile my UDF with Windows 7

64bit?

This problem sometimes looks similar to the one

concerning the missing 'nmake'.

Install Visual Studio. Most of the time the Visual C++

2008 Express Edition [3] is recommended. On my
system it even works with the new Visual Studio 2010
Professional Release Candidate [4].

Set the correct environment variables. Browse your

way through the Windows system control to 'System'.
There you will find a section 'Advanced system
settings'. In the following dialog go to the 'Advanced'
tabulator and click on 'Environment variables' (lower
right corner). Go through the 'System variables' list
and search for the 'Path' entry. Add the following to
the variable: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin;C:\Program
Files\ANSYS Inc\v120\fluent\ntbin\win64. Adjust this
entry to your system concerning the installation
directories! The Visual Studio entry should point to
the location where 'nmake' is located.

Install a Software Development Kit (SKD) for 64bit

systems. This may be the difference between 32bit
and 64bit systems. I have used the .NET Framework
2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x64) from 2006
[5] because it is explicitly for 64bit systems and I was
not sure if more recent versions are for 64bit systems
as well.

Start FLUENT from the SDK command prompt. Do not

use the Visual Studio command prompt, use the SDK
command prompt! Go to the directory your case is in
and type 'fluent'.