[petsc-users] Is it possible to build PETSc project in Visual Studio?

[Barry Smith]

   I have forwarded this to the pflotran developer who uses developer studio, hopefully he will be able to answer your questions.

    Barry

On Jul 31, 2013, at 6:35 PM, Danyang Su <danyang.su at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am currently developing codes under Windows utilizing intel visual fortran + visual studio. When I need to build the project, I switch to CYGWIN, compile the project with makefile and it works fine.
> 
> Recently, I found an Opensource project pflotran that also uses Petsc (https://bitbucket.org/pflotran/pflotran-dev/wiki/Home) and it is said the project can be build under windows with visual studio (https://bitbucket.org/pflotran/pflotran-dev/wiki/Installation/Windows). I tried a simple example following the instructions of pflotran to see if it works, unfortunately, it failed in linking, showing lots of unresolved external symbol.
> 
> The following directories have been included in the project property - General:
> C:\cygwin\packages\petsc-3.3-p4;C:\cygwin\packages\petsc-3.3-p4\include;C:\cygwin\packages\petsc-3.3-p4\arch-mswin-c-debug\include;C:\Program Files\MPICH2\include
> 
> And the following directories have been included in the project property - Linker:
> C:\cygwin\packages\petsc-3.4.2\arch-mswin-c-debug\lib;C:\Program Files\MPICH2\lib;
> libpetsc.lib fmpich2.lib fmpich2g.lib mpi.lib
> 
> I just want to make a confirmation if Petsc project can be built under visual studio. And if the answer is yes, how to configure the project.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Danyang
> <Petsc-windows-test.zip>