[petsc-users] How to interface with PETSc from another application?

[Klaus Burkart]

What's the concept to interface with PETSc from another application to solve a linear system with PETSc?

The standard procedure of the job:

1: The application provides a matrix which needs to be converted and be loaded into PETSc

2: The application provides the rhs vector (containing pointers!) which needs to be loaded into PETSc 

3: The linear system is to be solved using PETSc

4: The application provides the result vector x, the PETSc result needs to be copied back to the application into vector x (also expecting pointers)


The problem - maybe a completely wrong approach when it comes to using PETSc: 

With other linear algebra libraries, I included the library functionality in the code of a new solver accessing the functionality usually via header files and created a plugin which can be called from the application when running a simulation. 

Even so the mixed code including PETSc code can be compiled, the bit of the plugin, interfacing with the application is broken as soon as I include more than a PETSc declaration in the mixed code.

How to interface with PETSc from a software application?  (I am using c++ and Ubuntu)

Klaus
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