[petsc-users] Troubles installing PETSc

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Justin Dong (Me) <jsd1 at rice.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’ve just installed PETSc and it seems that I don’t get any errors. I type
> “make” from the command line and this is the end bit of the result:
>
> ==========================================
> Building PETSc using CMake with 5 build threads
> ==========================================
> Re-run cmake file: Makefile older than: ../CMakeLists.txt
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
> -- Build files have been written to:
> /Users/[…]/Classes/CAAMResearch/petsc-3.4.3/arch-darwin-c-debug
> [100%] Built target petsc
> Running /usr/bin/dsymutil on libpetsc
> =========================================
> Now to check if the libraries are working do:
> make PETSC_DIR=/Users/[…]/Classes/CAAMResearch/petsc-3.4.3
> PETSC_ARCH=arch-darwin-c-debug test
>
>
> and if I run the command it tells me to after that, I get:
>
> C/C++ example src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex19 run successfully with 1 MPI
> process
> C/C++ example src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex19 run successfully with 2 MPI
> processes
> Fortran example src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex5f run successfully with 1
> MPI process
> Completed test examples
>
>
> I try this example (
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/exercises/compiling/index.html)
> and get this error:
>
> cc     ex2.c   -o ex2
> *ex2.c:13:10: **fatal error: **'petscsys.h' file not found*
> #include <petscsys.h>
> *         ^*
> 1 error generated.
> make: *** [ex2] Error
>
>
There is a chapter in the manual on using PETSc makefiles

  Thanks

    Matt


> I’m working in the PETSc directory so I don’t think it’s an issue with
> setting the path, but I’m not that great at all of the architecture stuff.
> If anyone can assist, I’d be grateful.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>



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