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

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Satish Balay wrote:

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

  Yes, but it is much easier for checking than MS dlls so we have to start somewhere.

   Barry


> 
> satish
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
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>> 
>>   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:
>> 
>>> 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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