[petsc-users] Using PETSc from MATLAB code, experimental

[Satish Balay]

I suspect Matlab would work with MS dlls - and not cygwin/gnu dlls..

satish

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
> 
>    Michel
> 
>      Lisandro is exactly right. The key is building the .dll. If you are interested in pursing this we are eager to help but are not Windows experts in any way.
> 
>      1) are you using the GNU compiler or Microsoft?
>      2) if you are using GNU you can try building with the same options as indicated in the docs. including the --with-shared-libraries flag. what happens?
>           What is generated? 
> 
>    Let us know and we'll go from there,
> 
> 
>    Barry
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
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> > On 13 January 2011 08:38, Michel Cancelliere <fernandez858 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Barry,
> >> is Matlab under Windows with petsc-cygwin supported?
> >> 
> > 
> > Unlikely, we would need to build PETSc as a DLL... If anyone can
> > manage to do that, then Barry's work should work out of the box.
> > 
> > Or perhaps PETSc do build as a DLL under cygwin?
> > 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Michel
> >> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>  PETSc users,
> >>> 
> >>>   It is now possible to write MATLAB programs (sequential) that use PETSc
> >>> KSP, SNES, and TS solvers directly in MATLAB. The code is still experimental
> >>> and incomplete. But if you are interested in trying it out, get the
> >>> development release of PETSc
> >>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/developers/index.html join the
> >>> development mailing list petsc-dev
> >>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/miscellaneous/mailing-lists.html, read
> >>> bin/matlab/classes/PetscInitialize.m, configure and make PETSc and join the
> >>> fun. We are definitely in need of more developers for this code.
> >>> 
> >>>   Barry
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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