[petsc-users] configuration error on Windows with VS2005

[Satish Balay]

Please send the corresponding configure.log to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov

Satish

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Yixun Liu wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a configuration error as I install PETSc.
> 
> According to the installation instructions, I first *Setup cygwin bash
> shell with Working Compilers:*
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> --login
> 
> I got the following message:
> 
> Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that your
> gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd.
> The /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
> 
> Then I run the commands:
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/group
> 
> at last, as I run command cl, I got message:
> 
> Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.762 for
> 80x86
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ /link linkoption... ]
> 
> So, I think it works now.
> 
> Then I configure PETSc with the following command, but get the error "C
> compiler you provided with -with-cc=win32fe cl does not work".
> 
> 
> liuy14 at CC1DR1C515W05 /cygdrive/c/Yixun/VC/petsc-3.2-p5#  ./configure
> --with-cc='win32fe cl' --with-fc='win32fe ifort'  --with-cxx='win 32fe cl'
> --download-f-blas-lapack=1
> 
> ===============================================================================
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
> ===============================================================================
> TESTING: configureExternalPackagesDir from
> config.framework(config/BuildSystem/c
> TESTING: configureDebuggers from
> PETSc.utilities.debuggers(config/PETSc/utilitie
> TESTING: configureCMake from
> PETSc.utilities.CMake(config/PETSc/utilities/CMake.
> TESTING: configureCLanguage from
> PETSc.utilities.languages(config/PETSc/utilitie
> TESTING: configureLanguageSupport from
> PETSc.utilities.languages(config/PETSc/ut
> TESTING: configureExternC from
> PETSc.utilities.languages(config/PETSc/utilities/
> TESTING: configureFortranLanguage from
> PETSc.utilities.languages(config/PETSc/ut
> TESTING: configureMake from
> config.programs(config/BuildSystem/config/programs.p
> TESTING: configureMkdir from
> config.programs(config/BuildSystem/config/programs.
> TESTING: configurePrograms from
> config.programs(config/BuildSystem/config/progra
> TESTING: configureMercurial from
> config.sourceControl(config/BuildSystem/config/
> TESTING: configureCVS from
> config.sourceControl(config/BuildSystem/config/source
> TESTING: configureSubversion from
> config.sourceControl(config/BuildSystem/config
> TESTING: configureDirectories from
> PETSc.utilities.petscdir(config/PETSc/utiliti
> TESTING: configureExternalPackagesDir from
> PETSc.utilities.petscdir(config/PETSc
> TESTING: configureInstallationMethod from
> PETSc.utilities.petscdir(config/PETSc/
> TESTING: configureETags from
> PETSc.utilities.Etags(config/PETSc/utilities/Etags.
> TESTING: getDatafilespath from
> PETSc.utilities.dataFilesPath(config/PETSc/utilit
> TESTING: resetEnvCompilers from
> config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/se
> TESTING: checkMPICompilerOverride from
> config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/co
> TESTING: checkVendor from
> config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/setCompi
> TESTING: checkInitialFlags from
> config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/se
> TESTING: checkCCompiler from
> config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/setCo
>   File
> "/cygdrive/c/Yixun/VC/petsc-3.2-p5/config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers
> .py", line 508, in checkCCompiler
>     self.checkCompiler('C')
>   File
> "/cygdrive/c/Yixun/VC/petsc-3.2-p5/config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers
> .py", line 410, in checkCompiler
>     raise RuntimeError(msg)
> *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> detail
> s):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> C compiler you provided with -with-cc=win32fe cl does not work
> *******************************************************************************
> 
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Yixun
>