[petsc-users] change lib names

[Jed Brown]

I don't know details of Windows linking, but presume this is something like the library soname on Linux, which is set by libpetsc_soname.

``make V=1` should help with debugging -- you'll be able to see what is being passed to the linker.

Sam Guo <sam.guo at cd-adapco.com> writes:

> Hi Jed,
>    On windows, changing those lines allows me to link petsc with my
> application but failed at loading the library. I can only load the petsc
> lib by using libpetsc.dll and petsc.lib (instead of libpetsc_real.dll and
> petsc_real.lib).
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:29 PM Sam Guo <sam.guo at cd-adapco.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Jed. I'll give it a try/
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:20 PM Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>>
>>> See libpetsc_shared and the following 2-3 lines in gmakefile.
>>>
>>> Sam Guo <sam.guo at cd-adapco.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > Dear PETSc team,
>>> >   I like to change petsc lib name to petsc_real or petsc_complex to
>>> > distinguish real vs complex version. Simply copy of libpetsc to
>>> > libpetsc_real does not help. I need to update PETSc makefile to
>>> recompile
>>> > but I have troubles to figure out where PETSc makefile decides the lib
>>> > name.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Sam
>>>
>>