[petsc-users] possible development on Windows?

[Alexander Grayver]

Hi,

I work with Petsc both under Linux and Windows.
I develop in Fortran and it makes things even more tricky sometimes. My 
compilers are those included in VS 2008 and IFC 12 + MKL's BLAS/LAPACK 
for Fortran (however I started to work with petsc using IFC 10.1 and 
downloaded BLAS/LAPACK using petsc configure options).
The most tricky part for me was to build petsc properly, although all 
problems are directly and indirectly related to the Fortran usage. So if 
you write in C/C++ I would say it's going to be easy for you. Anyway I 
can share my configuration line if you get some problems.
I use VS IDE and debug applications in it. For sequential programs it is 
no problems, for MPI you have to install some additional tools (MPI 
Cluster Debugger and something else) and just switch debugger type from 
VS whenever you want. To make this debugger working with IFC cost me a 
couple of days and a lot of googling, but again for C/C++ it should be easy.
Unfortunately, there are no things like valgrind for Windows. I couldn't 
find at least.

Regards,
Alexander

On 06.11.2011 11:43, Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> I am normally working and developing my codes on linux, only compiling
> them at the end for Windows, but need to evaluate the possibilities to
> also efficiently develop on Windows. Is anyone developing Petsc based
> applications on Windows and could share some experiences? In
> particular, is it possible to debug only on Cygwin's gdb port or also
> to use (somehow) the Visual Studio's built in debugger? Are there
> tools comparable to valgrind to detect MPI-aware illegal memory
> accesses and leaks? I heard about TotalView, but never worked with it.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
> Dominik