[petsc-users] Petsc 3.3.p5 with HYPRE 2.9.0b

[Dominik Szczerba]

Please run dumpbin on the library to verify if this is a native or
cygwin object.

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On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:09 PM, John Fettig <john.fettig at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch>
> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM, John Fettig <john.fettig at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> FWIW, hypre 2.8.0b can be made to compile in windows with MSVC 10 in
>> >> cygwin.
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >
>> > Thanks, yes, I know, but I must compile it natively using MSVC, its
>> > beyond my control.
>> > PS/ I managed to compile 2.7.0b on my own with lots of hacks, 2.8.0b
>> > resists, as posted, 2.9.0b builds smoothly using cmake.
>>
>> Maybe I was not precise enough: what you refer to as "can be made to
>> compile in windows with MSVC 10 in cygwin" is not fully true: it means
>> compiling with MSVC but linking with cygwin, resulting in a cygwin
>> dependency, which is ruled out by the owner of the project that I am
>> working on.
>
>
> I'm not sure I understand.  The resulting library has no dependency on
> cygwin, and is compiled entirely by cl.  The library itself is built by
> "lib", the microsoft library tool.  Are you saying that requiring cygwin as
> the build environment for hypre is unacceptable?
>
> John
>