Krzysztof,
This is not a huge deal, but I believe it is worth mentioning because there is
a group of users who still want to use deal.ii on Windows.
No, I think this *is* a big deal -- thanks for being persistent and figuring
this out!
Would you mind putting a version of...
Windows 10’s Anniversary Update (build 1607) brings Linux Bash Shell based on
Ubuntu. It is really easy to install and may replace (in the future) more
sophisticated virtual machines like VirtualBox.
Activate the "Developer Mode" switch in Settings > Update & Security > For
Developers. Open Control Panel, click "Programs" > "Turn Windows Features On
or Off" under Programs and Features. Enable the "Windows Subsystem for Linux
(Beta)". After that you need to reboot and "Bash" will be available in Start
Menu. You can install additional packages using sudo apt-get install <package>
command.... and build deal.ii.
...this, possibly slightly expanded where necessary, into either the wiki at
https://github.com/dealii/dealii/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#can-i-use-dealii-on-a-windows-platform
or
https://github.com/dealii/dealii/wiki/Windows
or (best of all) both? That would definitely be fantastic!
Deal.ii 8.4.2 builds and installs successfully. Quick Tests passed. Simple
examples looks to work correctly.
However, I had a problem to build current git version. expand_instantiations
fails with "Invalid instantiation list: missing 'for'" for
source/fe/fe_bdm.inst. So it will require further investigation.
Hm. It's there, I guess, in the file. In fact, nothing in the file has
changed, so if anything it must be in expand_instantiations.cc, or a
miscompilation...
TL;DR. Linux shell in Windows works like small virtual machine (but it is not
a virtual machine) with shared file system. This is still beta but you can
build and run deal.ii based applications. I also see some drawbacks. Graphical
application works... sometimes. Compilation will produce valid linux binaries
so the solution is rather not portable between different windows systems.
Last but not least. There is a plugin (paid) for Visual Studio which supports
building and debugging using Linux subsystem in Windows.
I would guess that one can also just use Eclipse, which is free and will
likely just work because it can use cmake's Makefile generator in the Eclipse
project.
Best
W.
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