Compiling PETSc with Visual Studio 2008

[Farshid Mossaiby]

Dear Satish,

I am glad to inform you that I could finally build
PETSc with Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition in the
same way as 2005 version. The test example was run
successfully by make.

Now, may I know how should I add support for MPI? As
said in the web page, I disabled MPI (--with-mpi=0),
but my code needs it.

Regards,
Farshid Mossaiby

--- Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Farshid Mossaiby wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I want to try compiling PETSc with Visual Studio
> 2008
> > (Express Edition). I know that even 2005 support
> in
> > not complete (win32fe does not autodetect it), but
> I
> > can try. I may first use Cygwin, but somebody may
> > later use Python and other GNU utilities compiled
> for
> > Windows.
> 
> Hmm - not sure I understand this - but Cygwin is one
> version of Python
> & GNU utilities compiled for Windows.
> 
> What alternative are you thinking of?
> 
> > Could you please let me know if somebody has tried
> it
> > before? And what will be the problems, if I want
> to do
> > that?
> 
> You can give it a try with the instructions for
> "Using Visual Studio
> 2005" and let us know if you encounter errors.
> 
>
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/installation.html
> 
> > Do you have a list of external tools used in
> > your build system?
> 
> We don't have a complete list. It uses the basic
> unix tools like pwd,
> wc, uniq, sort and then the regular tools like grep,
> sed etc..  Most
> of them are available in a basic cygwin install
> [except for
> make/diff/python]
> 
> > Also, where can I find sources for win32fe?
> 
> http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/win32fe
> 
> Satish
> 
> 



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