<div style="white-space:pre-wrap">May I propose docker as an alternative approach? <a href="https://www.docker.com">https://www.docker.com</a><br><br>There are already petsc images and creating your own environment is not that hard. As a bonus you get a cross platform solution ... unless your application is windows specific in which case docker might not be the best way to go. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:45 AM Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org">jed@jedbrown.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Elaine Tang <<a href="mailto:lingdeer@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">lingdeer@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I am developing some software on windows that would like to utilize petsc<br class="gmail_msg">
> library. Currently I have petsc library configured on cygwin on my windows<br class="gmail_msg">
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This is probably a better choice than Cygwin going forward.<br class="gmail_msg">
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I don't know to what extent PETSc users have experimented with this<br class="gmail_msg">
feature, but it should make it easier to build and distribute PETSc.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Is there any binary of petsc for windows so that the software that I<br class="gmail_msg">
> develop will be more portable and can be run on other windows machine as<br class="gmail_msg">
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Are you developing an application or a library?<br class="gmail_msg">
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