building PETSc on Windows

[Satish Balay]

The main issue is - win32fe works with cygwin PATHs - not windows paths..

Satish

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> The Cygwin way works, but let me say that it is a bit of pain... as a
> novice in this crapy environment, I've spent a lot of time just to get
> all the Cygwin stuff properly installed...
> 
> I'm exploring the possibility of using an alternative, that is, using
> stock Python for Windows + MinGW + MSYS. MSYS provides a minimal
> UNIX-like shell and bundles development utilities like make. IMHO, it
> is a much lighter approach to Cygwin... I believe the alternative is
> possible... However, I have some issues that have to be addressed, and
> I would need your help...
> 
> 1) As I'm using the stock Python for Windows, the "select" module does
> not work on pipes.. Then the machinery for executing things in the
> shell and get stdout and stderr stuff needs to be reeimplemented... Do
> not worry about this, I can take this.
> 
> 2) BuildSystem assumes that the shell is '/bin/sh'... I would need it
> to find "sh" in the $PATH instead...
> 
> 3) When checking for make, BuildSystem uses 'strings' somewhere..
> Again, I need strings to be searched in $PATH.
> 
> 
> Can any of you try to fix (2) and (3) ? Anyway, that would be a good
> change even for Unix-like systems, right?
> 
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