[petsc-dev] Compiling ML on windows

[Matthew Knepley]

I have made a new tarball and pushed the new name to petsc-dev. We should
know whether anything
is messed up from nightly builds.

  Matt

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:14 AM, John Fettig <john.fettig at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I sent this to the wrong place, I've cc'd petsc-maint on this
> reply which includes the patch.  There are a couple of other things
> that have to be done that I couldn't include in the patch because I
> believe it requires modifying the files used to generate the configure
> script:
>
> 1) On windows, petsc expects libml.lib not libml.a and so the Makefile
> has to be changed to build libml.lib.
> 2) I believe you can pass AR to the configure script, but in any case,
> you need AR="$PETSC_DIR/bin/win32fe/win32fe lib -a" and
> RANLIB=/usr/bin/true in the Makefile
> 3) You have to add "-DICL" to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS.
> 4) The patch I've attached, which changes sleep to Sleep and excludes
> unistd.h when ICL is defined.  It also removes "--verbose" from the
> things that configure tries, because the result isn't parsed correctly
> (it makes configure think that "-link" needs to be added to the link
> line, which is erroneous).
>
> I believe those are all the changes I made.  I hope this patch can be
> applied to the ml tarball so that windows users have a better shot at
> using ml+petsc.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:22 AM, John Fettig <john.fettig at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have been working on compiling ML on windows using the tarball that
> > is downloaded through configure.py from petsc 3.1 p8.  There are
> > several changes to the source code and to the configure/Makefile that
> > I found necessary to get it to compile with the intel compilers.
> > Would you be interested in merging these changes into your tarball?
> > If so, I will put together a patch.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John
> >
>



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