<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Hi,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Can this help?</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span><a href="https://bitbucket.org/monaka/msys-python">https://bitbucket.org/monaka/msys-python</a></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Satish Balay <balay@mcs.anl.gov><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> For users of the development version of PETSc <petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 18, 2013 2:01 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [petsc-dev] [petsc-users] Eigenvalue solver method in Petsc<br> </font> </div> <br>
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Barry Smith wrote:<br><br>> <br>> We should support the Msys interface, what stands in the way of it.<br><br>Ok - msys appears to be part of mingw - and multiple sources of instalation information.<br><br>http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started<br><br>Installed via 'Graphical User Interface Installer' instructions with 'mingw-get-inst'<br><br>But I don't see any python. ['mingw-get list python' - the recommended<br>package manager gives 'unknown package' errork]<br><br>Ok - attempt to build from sources - but I get error here aswell.<br><br>gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Python/import.o Python/import.c<br>Python/import.c: In function 'write_compiled_module':<br>Python/import.c:886:50: error: 'S_IXGRP' undeclared (first use in this function)<br>Python/import.c:886:50: note: each undeclared
identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in<br>Python/import.c:886:61: error: 'S_IXOTH' undeclared (first use in this function)<br>make: *** [Python/import.o] Error 1<br><br>Google 'msys python' gives<br>http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/2012/04/its-just-wrong-msys-python.html<br><br>Is this hacked python one uses for msys? I don't know.. There are also<br>references to windows native python - but then - petsc configure<br>doesn't work with it.<br><br>Also - I don't see any editors [vi/emacs] in msys - presumably one is<br>expected to use MS native mostly [including for python?]<br><br>Satish<br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>