[petsc-users] possible development on Windows?

[Dominik Szczerba]

Hi Alexander,

Are you running Windows HPC edition? According to google, it is
required for the referred MPI Cluster Debugger.

I would also appreciate some more hints on "and something else", if
you have them.

Many thanks,
Dominik

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Alexander Grayver
<agrayver at gfz-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 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
>
>