[petsc-users] Regarding Installation

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Anuj Dube <adube1 at tigers.lsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sir/ Madam
> >
> > I have downloaded the zip folder but it seems that that the setup file is
> > .py and I do not have python on my system. Is there a way to install PETSc
> > to my windows system without downloading Python?
> 
> 
> No. The configuration system uses Python and the build system uses Cygwin
> (which has Python).

i.e you need cygwin-python and other cygwin tools - not regular/win-python

check the installation instructions.

Satish