You have to send configure.log (send it to <a href="mailto:petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov">petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov</a>) or we have absolutely<br>no idea what is going on.<br><br>  Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Rob Ellis <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Robert.G.Ellis@shaw.ca">Robert.G.Ellis@shaw.ca</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Petsc Experts</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">I&#39;ve been running Petsc/TAO successfully under CVF VC but need
to move to 64 bit. Now, I&#39;m trying to compile Petsc on a Windows XP64, VS2008 C/C++
and IVF 11 from the IVF compiler shell with Cygwin bash using the command</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">./config/configure.py                
 \</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">     --with-cc=&#39;win32fe
cl&#39;             \</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">     --with-cxx=&#39;win32fe
cl&#39;           \</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">    
--with-fc=ifort                
           \</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">     --with-mpi-dir=/cygdrive/c/MPICH2 \</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">    
--download-f-blas-lapack=1        \</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">     --with-clanguage=C++
CXXFLAGS=&#39;-DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX -MT -GR -EHsc&#39;</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">and get the following error:</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">=================================================================================</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">            
Configuring PETSc to compile on your system</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">=================================================================================</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">TESTING: checkCCompiler from
config.setCompilers(/cygdrive/z/ai/petsc-3.0.0-p9/config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:394)</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">         UNABLE to
CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">C compiler you provided with -with-cc=win32fe cl does not
work</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">*********************************************************************************</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">However if I type cl at the command line, cl seems to work</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">$ cl</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version
15.00.21022.08 for x64</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights
reserved.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ /link linkoption... ]</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Any help would be most appreciated.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Rob</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener<br>