[petsc-users] Reg : PETSC Installation

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Manish Kumar K wrote:

> Dear PETSc Team,
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>          I am configuring and trying to install PETSc on Cygwin shell. While invoking following commands in shell
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> Step 1:
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> ./configure -with-cc=gcc -with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=gfortran --with-mpi=0
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> --download-fblaslapack=/cygdrive/yourselectedloaction/fblaslapack-3.4.2.tar.gz -with-batch


You should not need -with-batch option. Also you can install lapack from cygwin - and use that.

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> Step 2:
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> ./conftest-arch-mswin-c-debug
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> Step 3:
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> ./reconfigure-arch-mswin-c-debug.py
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> Step 4:
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> make test all
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> When i do the above steps I get libpetsc.a file generated in lib folder of PETSc "petsc-3.5.3\arch-mswin-c-debug\lib" .
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> I need an libpetsc.lib file with .lib extension , can you please help me how to generate libpetsc.lib file

Presumably you need petsc.lib to use with MS compilers? If so - you should install PETSc with 
MS compilers - and not cgywin/gnu compilers.

Please check instructions at:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/installation.html#windows

Satish

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> Let me know if you needed anything else
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> Regards
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> Manish K
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