building PETSc on Windows

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes, but I want to start by supporting MinGW+MSYS, what's wrong with that?

Additionally, as I'm using stock Python for Windows, as long as
BuildSystem code consistely uses 'os.path.xxx' stuff for handling
path, we should end-up with native Windows paths...

To put it clear, I want you to help me fix a few oversights in
BuildSystem (with anyway make sense for any platform) and then
continue myself working on this... Perhaps I can end-up with a good
alternative, perhaps no...

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