[petsc-users] Issues with log_view on windows

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 1:31 PM Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Ah yes..
>
> PATH=C:\cygwin64\usr\local\bin;C:\cygwin64\bin;C:\cygwin64\bin;C:\Program
> Files
> (x86)\IntelSWTools\compilers_and_libraries_2020.2.254\windows\mpi\intel64\bin;C:\Program
> Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared
> Libraries\redist\intel64_win\mpirt;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common
> Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\ia32_win\mpirt;C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared
> Libraries\redist\intel64_win\compiler;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common
> Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\ia32_win\compiler;C:\Program
> Files\Microsoft
> MPI\Bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\cygwin64\lib\lapack
>

The user would be responsible for escaping the semicolon if used in the
shell unfortunately.

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Satish
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:57 AM Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >   What does Windows use for a path separator?
> > >
> >
> > semicolon
> >
> > Maybe we could use either one as a separator, since semicolon is also
> used
> > by the UNIX shell.
> >
> >    Matt
> >
> >
> > > On Nov 22, 2021, at 11:19 AM, Satish Balay via petsc-users <
> > > petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > >
> > > Well our build tools use cygwin - but the library is built with
> MS/Intel
> > > compilers - they use paths in windows notation.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if there is a way to get windows PATHs without ':'
> > >
> > > Satish
> > >
> > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2021, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:36 AM Milan Pelletier <
> > > milan.pelletier at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Matt,
> > > Thanks for the answer. I could fix my issue regarding unbalanced
> events -
> > > and so SNES ex5 does work well too.
> > > By the way, such imbalance does not trigger errors when log_view is
> using
> > > plain ascii output, but it does fail when ascii_xml is used instead.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, we have a "failsafe" for the regular logging, but the XML is
> > > specifically hierarchical and we do not know how to close it. We could
> take
> > > another look at that.
> > >
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, regarding absolute paths, I had also tried to use cygwin
> > > paths (`/cygdrive/c/...`) but that does not work either.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hmm, that should work I think. Satish, do we have a machine to login
> and
> > > test something like this?
> > >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >
> > >     Matt
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Milan
> > >
> > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > > Le lundi 22 novembre 2021 à 2:39 PM, Matthew Knepley <
> knepley at gmail.com>
> > > a écrit :
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:38 AM Milan Pelletier via petsc-users <
> > > petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear PETSc team,
> > >
> > > The way some options are passed to PETSc can be an issue on Windows, in
> > > particular regarding the "log_view" option.
> > > Since the colon ':' character is used as a separator, I do not see how
> > > absolute paths should be provided on Windows (since the drive name
> includes
> > > a colon). Is there a trick / workaround to overcome this?
> > >
> > >
> > > I thought we used Cygwin paths, but maybe one of the Windows people
> knows
> > > better.
> > >
> > >
> > > Besides, when I try to use the ascii_xml format, it crashes in file
> > > xmllogevent.c, on line 751:
> > >  illegalEvent = 1+nestedEvents[nNestedEvents-1].nstEvent;
> > > (since nestedEvents is NULL).
> > >
> > >
> > > This likely means that you have unbalanced events. I can run this on
> > > examples. For instance does SNES ex5 work for you?
> > >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >
> > >     Matt
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm using PETSc version 3.16.1 (using `git checkout tags/v3.16.1`).
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > > Best regards,
> > > Milan Pelletier
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> > > experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
> their
> > > experiments lead.
> > > -- Norbert Wiener
> > >
> > > https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
> > > <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>


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