[petsc-users] x64 build problem

[Barry Smith]

    Try using the options --with-cc="win32fe --nodetect cl" --with- 
cxx="win32fe --nodetect cl" instead

    This business has to be fixed up very soon in petsc-dev for the  
next release,



    Barry

On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Rob Ellis wrote:

> Hi Matt,
> Of course, my apologies, here it is.
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> From: petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov 
> ] On Behalf Of Matthew Knepley
> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 5:10 PM
> To: PETSc users list
> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] x64 build problem
>
> You have to send configure.log (send it to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov)  
> or we have absolutely
> no idea what is going on.
>
>   Matt
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Rob Ellis <Robert.G.Ellis at shaw.ca>  
> wrote:
> Hi Petsc Experts
>
> I've been running Petsc/TAO successfully under CVF VC but need to  
> move to 64 bit. Now, I'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
>
> ./config/configure.py                  \
>      --with-cc='win32fe cl'             \
>      --with-cxx='win32fe cl'           \
>      --with-fc=ifort                            \
>      --with-mpi-dir=/cygdrive/c/MPICH2 \
>      --download-f-blas-lapack=1        \
>      --with-clanguage=C++ CXXFLAGS='-DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX -MT -GR -EHsc'
>
> and get the following error:
>
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> ======================================================================
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> ======================================================================
> TESTING: checkCCompiler from config.setCompilers(/cygdrive/z/ai/ 
> petsc-3.0.0-p9/config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:394)
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see  
> configure.log for details):
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> C compiler you provided with -with-cc=win32fe cl does not work
> *********************************************************************************
>
> However if I type cl at the command line, cl seems to work
>
> $ cl
> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.21022.08 for x64
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ /link linkoption... ]
>
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their  
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which  
> their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
> <configure.log>