building PETSc on Windows

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Satish Balay wrote:

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

BTW: The installation instructions list the cygwin modules one must install. Are
these instructions missing some modules?

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(MS Windows only) Install cygwin package (including make, python modules) and use cygwin shell.

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Satish