Compiling PETSc with Visual Studio 2008

[Farshid Mossaiby]

I built PETSc with this command line after installing
latest MPICH2:

./config/configure.py --with-cc='win32fe cl
--nodetect' --with-fc=0 --with-ar='win32fe lib
--nodetect' PETSC_ARCH=cygwin-c-debug-mpi --with-mpi=1
--with-mpi-dir=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/MPICH2/
--download-c-blas-lapack=../f2cblaslapack.tar.gz

It compiles OK but stops after "make all test":

...
Completed building libraries
=========================================
Shared libraries disabled
Running test examples to verify correct installation

... and I have to press Ctrl-C to quit. Have I done
anything wrong?

Regards,
Farshid Mossaiby

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

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Farshid Mossaiby wrote:
> 
> > Dear Satish,
> > 
> > Thanks for all your helpful comments.
> > 
> > I am currently doing a 32 bit build. I will try to
> > install MPICH2 binaries and report the results.
> > 
> > I read a bit the manual of latest MPICH2; it says
> you
> > can build it very easily under windows. I still
> cannot
> > understand why Matt wrote:
> > 
> > MPICH (and any other MPI) does not build
> automatically
> > on Windows. You have to download binaries, which
> means
> > you are stuck with whatever compilers were used to
> > build it.
> 
> PETSc configure cannot build it with the option
> --download-mpich=1 [or
> the alternate mpi with --download-lam=1]. If you
> know how to build it
> yourself, and then configure PETSc with it - then
> that should work.
> No one has attempted this on windows yet [as far as
> I know].
> 
> Why would you prefer to build MPICH from sources on
> windows - when the
> binary install is available?
> 
> Satish
> 
> 



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