[petsc-users] How can PETSc configure with MSMPI

[Danyang Su]

Hi All,

MPICH with CYGWIN can work on my box if only --with-mpi or --with-openmp 
is specified, but when both option is given, I can not configure PETSc. 
As you see, it's best to switch to Linux or at first step, switch to 
Linux virtual machine. This is what I need to do later, maybe I should 
try it earlier.

Thanks and regards,

Danyang

On 02/02/2014 10:28 AM, Jed Brown wrote:
> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>
>> On Feb 2, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>>
>>>> You can try --download-mpich [not MSMPI] - if you are using gnu
>>>> compilers on windows.
>>> MPICH is no longer supported on Windows (no funding).  They have mailing
>>> list traffic about it almost every day, and recommend using MSMPI or
>>> Intel MPI.
>>     Maybe the Open Source Community can take up maintenance on it
> That requires a competent and motivated developer with a vested interest
> in having MPICH work with Cygwin.  So far, said person has not appeared.
>
> MS-MPI is MPICH with a few proprietary bits.  The binaries are free, but
> it is not open source.  I guess this is a problem for us because it
> doesn't work with Cygwin (I don't understand the issues).  Should we
> reconsider non-Cygwin builds?