[petsc-users] compiling 3.2 on Windows

[Dominik Szczerba]

Sorry, seems I am wrong, dumpbin.exe says it is valid:
Any more hints are appreciated.
Dominik

C:\pack\petsc-3.2-p5\win64-msvc-release\lib>dumpbin libf2cblas.lib
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Dump of file libf2cblas.lib

File Type: LIBRARY

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch> wrote:
> I think I know what the reason is. blas/lapack seems to be linked on
> cygwin as a cygwin library while I need a native Windows library, like
> I am doing with hypre. Is there a way to go here or do I need to (and
> actually can) setup blas/lapack myself? Will it also happen with
> parmetis? Note, parmetis and blas/lapack used to compile fine natively
> some time ago.
>
> Dominik
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> I am configuring with:
>>
>> ./config/configure.py PETSC_DIR=$PWD PETSC_ARCH=win64-msvc-release
>> --with-x=0 --with-debugging=0 --with-cc='win32fe cl'
>> --with-cxx='win32fe cl' --with-fc=0 --download-f2cblaslapack
>> --with-mpi-dir=/cygdrive/c/mpich2-1.3.2p1-win-x86-64
>> --with-hypre-dir=/cygdrive/c/pack/hypre-2.7.0b/src/hypre/
>> --with-parmetis=1 --download-parmetis=1
>>
>> and getting an error:
>>
>> *******************************************************************************
>>         UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log
>> for details):
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --download-f2cblaslapack libraries cannot be used
>> *******************************************************************************
>>  File "./config/configure.py", line 283, in petsc_configure
>>    framework.configure(out = sys.stdout)
>>  File "/cygdrive/c/pack/petsc-3.2-p5/config/BuildSystem/config/framework.py",
>> line 925, in configure
>>    child.configure()
>>  File "/cygdrive/c/pack/petsc-3.2-p5/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/BlasLapack.py",
>> line 538, in configure
>>    self.executeTest(self.configureLibrary)
>>  File "/cygdrive/c/pack/petsc-3.2-p5/config/BuildSystem/config/base.py",
>> line 115, in executeTest
>>    ret = apply(test, args,kargs)
>>  File "/cygdrive/c/pack/petsc-3.2-p5/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/BlasLapack.py",
>> line 444, in configureLibrary
>>    for (name, blasLibrary, lapackLibrary, self.useCompatibilityLibs)
>> in self.generateGuesses():
>>  File "/cygdrive/c/pack/petsc-3.2-p5/config/BuildSystem/config/packages/BlasLapack.py",
>> line 162, in generateGuesses
>>    raise RuntimeError('--download-f2cblaslapack libraries cannot be used')
>>
>> I will send the full log to petsc-maint in a second. How do I go from here?
>>
>> Thanks for any hints,
>> Dominik
>>
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