Compiling PETSc with Visual Studio 2008

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Farshid Mossaiby <mossaiby at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Configure says it cannot make ParMetis with the option
>  --download-parmetis. Is this related to Visual Studio
>  2008 compiler I use, or something else is wrong? Here
>  is the message:
>
>  Error running make on ParMetis: Could not execute 'cd
>  /home/Administrator/petsc-2.3.3-p12/externalpackages/ParMetis-dev;
>  make clean; make lib; make minstall; make clean':
>  make: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.
>  make: *** No rule to make target `lib'.  Stop.
>  make: *** No rule to make target `minstall'.  Stop.
>  make: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.
>  *********************************************************************************
>
>  Regards,
>  Farshid Mossaiby
>
>  P.S. I hope this is appropriate place to ask this.

1) No, this belongs on petsc-maint

2) We cannot tell anything without the configure.log file

   Matt

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