building PETSc on Windows

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > The main issue is - win32fe works with cygwin PATHs - not windows paths..
> >
>
> Sorry, I'm do not know what are you talking about ... Is win32fe a
> compiler wrapper? Note I want to support the stock Python for win +
> MinGW (outside cygwin) + MSYS (minimal system)...


The issue here is supporting the Windows compilers. What you propose would
probably work for gcc, but we use win32fe in order to support all the
compilers
made the MS programming environment.

  Matt


>
> > Satish
>
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