[petsc-dev] c2html and sowing fail on windows.

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Chetan Jhurani wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Satish Balay
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:04 PM
> > To: For users of the development version of PETSc
> > Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] c2html and sowing fail on windows.
> > 
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Chetan Jhurani wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Of course, using "--with-sowing=0 --with-c2html=0"
> > > avoids the issue for now, but both the packages don't
> > > work on windows out of the box.
> > 
> > These packages need cygwin gcc/g++ installed [and flex for c2html]
> 
> Thanks Satish.  I had kept the least number of packages described here
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/installation.html#windows
> so as to have a fixed portable but standard cygwin, which could be
> very small when zipped up.  Perhaps the requirement of flex/gcc/g++
> (for these two packages) can be added there.

those instructions are for tarball installs.

Hg repo installs have optional extra requirements sowing,c2html
documented at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/developers/index.html

I can add in a windows/cygwin note there..

Satish