<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM 程奔 <<a href="mailto:ctchengben@mail.scut.edu.cn">ctchengben@mail.scut.edu.cn</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<span style="font-size:14px">Hello,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">Recently I try successfully to install PETSc with Cygwin and Visual Studio on Windows10 plateform(with external packages metis and parmetis).</span>
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<span>Now I want to use hdf5, so I re-configure the PETSc on the cygwin with </span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:SimSun,宋体,STSong;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,40,50);font-family:SimSun,宋体,STSong;font-size:14px">Native Microsoft/Intel Windows Compilers.</span><span style="font-family:SimSun,宋体,STSong;font-size:14px"><br>
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<span style="font-size:14px">The softwares/packages used below:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">1. PETSc: version 3.23.2</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">2. VS: version 2022 </span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">3. Intel MPI: download Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit and HPC Toolkit</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">4. Cygwin</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:14px">And the compiler option in configuration is:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"></span>./configure --with-debugging=0 --with-cc=cl --with-fc=ifort --with-cxx=cl --with-blaslapack-lib=-L/cygdrive/g/Intel/oneAPI/mkl/2023.2.0/lib/intel64 mkl-intel-lp64-dll.lib mkl-sequential-dll.lib mkl-core-dll.lib --download-fblaslapack=/cygdrive/g/mypetsc/petsc-pkg-fblaslapack-e8a03f57d64c.tar.gz --with-mpi-include=/cygdrive/g/Intel/oneAPI/mpi/2021.10.0/include --with-mpi-lib=/cygdrive/g/Intel/oneAPI/mpi/2021.10.0/lib/release/impi.lib --with-mpiexec=/cygdrive/g/Intel/oneAPI/mpi/2021.10.0/bin/mpiexec -localonly --download-metis=/cygdrive/g/mypetsc/petsc-pkg-metis-8b194fdf0966.tar.gz --download-parmetis=/cygdrive/g/mypetsc/petsc-pkg-parmetis-f5e3aab04fd5.tar.gz --with-strict-petscerrorcode=0 --with-64-bit-indices --download-hdf5=/cygdrive/g/mypetsc/hdf5-1.14.3-p1.tar.bz2 --download-zlib=/cygdrive/g/mypetsc/zlib-1.3.1.tar.gz<br>
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<span style="font-size:14px">However it return an error:</span>
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</span> <span style="font-size:14px"></span> UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for details):<br>
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External package zlib does not support --download-zlib with Microsoft compilers<br>
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<span> External package hdf5 </span><span>does not support --download-hdf5 with Microsoft compilers</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:14px">The configure.log is attached.<br>
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It seem that I can't use <span style="color:rgb(34,40,50);font-family:SimSun,宋体,STSong;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Microsoft/Intel Windows Compilers to install hdf5, and </span>
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Libraries built with Cygwin/GNU compilers are <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;margin-bottom:0px">not</span> compatible and cannot be linked with Microsoft or Intel compilers. <span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:SimSun,宋体,STSong;font-size:14px">But I do use Intel compiler on the Visual studio. </span></span>
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So I wrrit this email to report my problem and ask for your help that how can I use PETSc with hdf5 on the Windows. </p></div></div></blockquote><div>1. You can build under WSL2, which is what I would recommend.</div><div><br></div><div>2. If you really want to use Windows compilers, you will have to build HDF5 yourself.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
<span style="font-size:14px">Looking forward your reply!</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:14px">sinserely,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px">Cheng.</span><br>
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