[petsc-users] Configure error

[Fabio]

I forgot to say that I start cygwin from the MSVC 2008 Expresse prompt
and that running cl does produce some output (basically prviding an
help for the cl function)

2012/8/10 Fabio <fabio.pinna.2006 at gmail.com>:
> I followed your advice and I installed the binary version of MPICH for
> win 32 bit.
> Than I prepared the envirnmental variable with
> PETSC_DIR=`pwd`; export PETSC_DIR
>
> then in the petsc directory
>
> ./config/configure.py --with-cc='win32fe cl' --with-fc='win32fe f90'
> --download-f-blas-lapack --with-mpi-dir=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\
> \(x86\)/MPICH2
>
> and I got the error
>
> "C compiler you provided -with-cc win32fe cl does not work"
>
> Part of the log look like this
>
> sh: /cygdrive/d/Workspace/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p13/bin/win32fe/win32fe cl
> -c -o conftest.o   conftest.c
> Executing: /cygdrive/d/Workspace/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p13/bin/win32fe/win32fe
> cl -c -o conftest.o   conftest.c
> sh: Warning: win32fe: Path Not Found: C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1.0\SharedIDE\BIN
>
> conftest.c
>
>
> sh: /cygdrive/d/Workspace/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p13/bin/win32fe/win32fe cl
> -c -o conftest.o   conftest.c
> Executing: /cygdrive/d/Workspace/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p13/bin/win32fe/win32fe
> cl -c -o conftest.o   conftest.c
> sh: Warning: win32fe: Path Not Found: C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1.0\SharedIDE\BIN
>
> conftest.c
>
>
>                                           Pushing language C
>                                           Popping language C
>                                           Pushing language Cxx
>                                           Popping language Cxx
>                                           Pushing language FC
>                                           Popping language FC
>                   Pushing language C
>                   Popping language C
> sh: /cygdrive/d/Workspace/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p13/bin/win32fe/win32fe cl
>  -o conftest.exe     conftest.o
> Executing: /cygdrive/d/Workspace/PETSc/petsc-2.3.3-p13/bin/win32fe/win32fe
> cl  -o conftest.exe     conftest.o
> sh: Warning: win32fe: Path Not Found: C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1.0\SharedIDE\BIN
>
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'kernel32.lib'
>
>
> Possible ERROR while running linker:  output: Warning: win32fe: Path
> Not Found: C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1.0\SharedIDE\BIN
>
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'kernel32.lib'
>
> ret = 512
>
>
>
> so it look like a directory problem, but the installation is standard,
> maybe I cannot use it with MS Visual C++ 2008 Express?
> Thank you for your time.
> Fabio
>
>
> 2012/8/6 Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>:
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2012, at 5:19 PM, Fabio <fabio.pinna.2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for your quick reply,I will try with a reboot.
>>>
>>> Regarding the compiler my idea was to use MSVC express 2008. I thought
>>> it was possible to compile both library with gcc under cygwin.
>>> From your reply I guess this is not the case.
>>> Does this mean I should compile Petsc with MSVC express as well, isn't it?
>>
>>    Yes, you need to compile PETSc with the compiler you would like to use and make sure to use the MPICH binary install  since that works with the Microsoft compilers.
>>
>>    Barry
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Fabio.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/8/5 Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>:
>>>> On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, Fabio wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> I am new to petsc, and I've been struggling with it for the last days.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to install it on Windows 7, and first  I tried to install the
>>>>> Microsoft MPI and then compiling the MPICH. They both seems ok but I
>>>>> am not able to compile Petsc with any of them.
>>>>> I am mostly interested to MPICH (for portability).
>>>>> I used this script to configure
>>>>>
>>>>> ./config/configure.py PETSC_ARCH=win32-gnu  --with-fc=0
>>>>> --download-f2cblaslapack=1
>>>>> –with-mpi-dir=/cygdrive/d/Workspace/MPICH/mpich2-1.4.1p1
>>>>
>>>> What compilers do you plan to use? MS C/C++ or cygwin gcc/g++?
>>>>
>>>> [MS MPI is for use with MS compiler only. MPICH binary install is for
>>>> MS compilers, and MPICH source install is for cygwin gcc/g++]
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> and I've got this error,
>>>>>
>>>>>                    UNABLE to EXECUTE BINARIES for config/configure.py
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> [Errno 16] Device or resource busy: 'conftest.exe'
>>>>>
>>>>> This error seems to happen pretty randomly at differente places in the script.
>>>>> Any idea to solve this problem?
>>>>
>>>> Its bad file locks on windows. The only suggestion we have is reboot.
>>>>
>>>> For some cygwin issues - you need to run 'rebaseall' but this doesn;t apper to be
>>>> that issue.
>>>>
>>>> If you still have issues - send the complete log [and logfile] to petsc-maint.
>>>>
>>>> Satish
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you all
>>>>>
>>>>> Fabio
>>>>>
>>