[petsc-users] Could not find make when building PETSc in Windows 7

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Qin Lu wrote:

> Jed,
>  
> As I mentioned, I did add C:\cygwin64\bin (where make.exe is) to Path, 

You shouldn't have to do this. Perhaps cygwin is not setup properly.

Also cygwin notation is /usr/bin - not C:\cygwin64\bin

Are you running the commands in 'mintty' terminal or 'cmd' terminal?

> and also tried to run ./configure --with-cc='win32fe icl' --with-fc='win32fe ifort' --with-cxx='win32fe icl' --with-make=/cygdrive/cygwin64/bin. It did not work, I just tried what you suggested: adding --download-make in confugure, it gave the same error.

--download-make is not in petsc-3.4

BTW: the latest patch update is petsc-3.4.3

Satish


>  
> Thanks,
> Qin
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:36 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Qin Lu <lu_qin_2000 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to build PETSc in Windows 7 with following steps:
> >
> > 1. Installed cygwin 64-bit with python, make and other default packages under C:\cygwin64
> > 2. Added C:\cygwin64\bin to Windows environmental variable Path.
> > 3. Downloaded and unzipped PETSc 3.4.2.
> > 4. Run mintty.exe to open a cygwin terminal.
> > 5. In the cygwin terminal, under PETSc directory, run:  ./configure --with-cc='win32fe icl' --with-fc='win32fe ifort' --with-cxx='win32fe icl'
> >
> > However, it gave an error "Could not locate the make utility on your system, make sure it is in your path or use --with-make=/fullpathnameofmake and run ./configure again".  I suppose it should use C:\cygwin64\bin\make.exe, which is already in path, but I still added  --with-make=/cvgdrive/cygwin64/bin in configure's option and run configure again, yet it gave the same error.
> 
> You need to pass the full path to the make executable (or add it to your
> path), or you can use --download-make.
> 
> 
> > What should I do to let configure know the path of make?
> >  
> > Many thanks for your help,
> >  
> > Regard,
> > Qin 
>