building PETSc on Windows

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Satish Balay wrote:
> >
> >> 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...
> >
> > BTW: The installation instructions list the cygwin modules one must install. Are
> > these instructions missing some modules?
> >
> 
> Mmm.. not remember exactly righ now, but PETSc requires 'diff', and
> that should be in 'diffutils' package...

The last I checked, when 'make,python' are selected - 'diffutils' is a
dependent package - that gets installed. Perhaps some dependencies
changed in the last few years - so I should list 'diffutils' in this
list?

Satish

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