[petsc-users] Using ViennaCL without recompiling

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2017, Franco Milicchio wrote:

> 
> > Not recompiling your own project is fine. PETSc has an ABI. You just reconfigure/recompile PETSc with
> > ViennaCL support. Then you can use -mat_type viennacl etc.
> 
> Thanks for your answer, Matt, but I expressed myself in an ambiguous way.
> 
> I cannot recompile PETSc, I can do whatever I want with my code.

You can always install PETSc.

If you don't have write permission to the install you are currently
using - you can start with a fresh tarball [of the same version], use
reconfigure*.py from the current install to configure - and install
your own copy [obviously at a different location.

Satish

> 
> Thank you!
> 	Franco
> 	/fm
> 
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