[petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc

[Smith, Barry F.]

   Richard,

     Thanks. The important thing is to be able to build PETSc for Microsoft and Intel Windows compilers (so that users can use the libraries from the Microsoft development system as a "regular" Windows users).

   Barry


> On Jul 1, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Mills, Richard Tran via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> I played around with WSL1 quite some time ago and it seemed pretty promising. I have not tried WSL2, but I'm guessing that it may be the best option for building PETSc on a Windows 10 machine. I've got a Windows 10 machine (it basically just runs my television/media center) and I'll give it a try on there.
> 
> --Richard
> 
> On 6/29/19 8:11 PM, Jed Brown via petsc-dev wrote:
>> "Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev" <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov>
>>  writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>   Does it make sense to recommend/suggest  git bash for Windows as an alternative/in addition to Cygwin?
>>> 
>> I would love to be able to recommend git-bash and/or WSL2 (which now
>> includes a full Linux kernel).  I don't have a system on which to test,
>> but it should be possible to make it work (if it doesn't already).
>> 
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