Compiling PETSc with Visual Studio 2008

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Farshid Mossaiby wrote:

> 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?

This MPI requires additional *settings* to run codes. I.e automated
testing won't work. Try running manually.

cd src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials
make ex2
mpiexec -n 2 ./ex2


[mostlikely - mpiexec need to authenicate the windows way - before
being able to launch a job]

Satish