[petsc-users] x64 build problem

[Satish Balay]

Actually its  --with-cc='win32fe cl --nodetect' --with-fc='win32fe ifort --nodetect'  etc..

check 'Using Visual Studio 2005:' section of installation instructions
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/installation.html

Satish

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>   Try using the options --with-cc="win32fe --nodetect cl" --with-cxx="win32fe
> --nodetect cl" instead
> 
>   This business has to be fixed up very soon in petsc-dev for the next
> release,
> 
> 
> 
>   Barry
> 
> On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Rob Ellis wrote:
> 
> > Hi Matt,
> > Of course, my apologies, here it is.
> > Thanks,
> > Rob
> > 
> > From: petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov
> > [mailto:petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Matthew Knepley
> > Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 5:10 PM
> > To: PETSc users list
> > Subject: Re: [petsc-users] x64 build problem
> > 
> > You have to send configure.log (send it to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov) or we
> > have absolutely
> > no idea what is going on.
> > 
> >  Matt
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Rob Ellis <Robert.G.Ellis at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Hi Petsc Experts
> > 
> > I've been running Petsc/TAO successfully under CVF VC but need to move to 64
> > bit. Now, I'm trying to compile Petsc on a Windows XP64, VS2008 C/C++ and
> > IVF 11 from the IVF compiler shell with Cygwin bash using the command
> > 
> > ./config/configure.py                  \
> >     --with-cc='win32fe cl'             \
> >     --with-cxx='win32fe cl'           \
> >     --with-fc=ifort                            \
> >     --with-mpi-dir=/cygdrive/c/MPICH2 \
> >     --download-f-blas-lapack=1        \
> >     --with-clanguage=C++ CXXFLAGS='-DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX -MT -GR -EHsc'
> > 
> > and get the following error:
> > 
> > =================================================================================
> >             Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
> > =================================================================================
> > TESTING: checkCCompiler from
> > config.setCompilers(/cygdrive/z/ai/petsc-3.0.0-p9/config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:394)
> >         UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> > details):
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > C compiler you provided with -with-cc=win32fe cl does not work
> > *********************************************************************************
> > 
> > However if I type cl at the command line, cl seems to work
> > 
> > $ cl
> > Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.21022.08 for x64
> > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> > 
> > usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ /link linkoption... ]
> > 
> > 
> > Any help would be most appreciated.
> > Cheers,
> > Rob
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
> > is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
> > lead.
> > -- Norbert Wiener
> > <configure.log>
>