[mpich-discuss] Building MPICH2-1.3.2 on Windows

[Jayesh Krishna]

Hi,
 Yes, the Microsoft HPC Pack is required for 32-bit and 64-bit builds. Although we haven't updated the documentation yet, you can launch MPI jobs on Microsoft HPC clusters by using the "-ms_hpc" option of mpiexec. This requires the MS HPC SDK.
 Although the current VS project files are for VS 2005 I do MPICH2 builds using VS 2008 and VS 2010 for testing purposes using the maint/winbuild.wsf script (the script sets some environment required for makefile and invokes nmake on the Windows makefile). You will currently need to do the following to build MPICH2 using VS 2008/2010,

# Run the windows configure script (cscript winconfigure.wsf --cleancode)
# Change directory to the directory containing the Windows makefile (cd winbuild)
# Invoke the winbuild.wsf script from this directory (The first command should give you the options & the second one will build x64 Release version of nemesis module).
  cscript ..\maint\winbuild.wsf /?
 
  cscript ..\maint\winbuild.wsf --with-cpu=x64 --build=Release --with-appver=5.02 --with-channel=nemesis --disable-profiling --disable-fortran --disable-gcc


Regards,
Jayesh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edric Ellis" <Edric.Ellis at mathworks.co.uk>
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Friday, February 4, 2011 4:31:55 AM
Subject: [mpich-discuss] Building MPICH2-1.3.2 on Windows





Hi, 



When building MPICH2-1.3.2 on Windows, is Microsoft’s “HPC Pack” required only at build time? I have only tried on Win64 so far – is it needed on Win32? 



Also, is there any timeline for supporting Visual Studio 2008 for builds? 



Cheers, 



Edric. 
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