On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Farshid Mossaiby wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to try compiling PETSc with Visual Studio 2008 > (Express Edition). I know that even 2005 support in > not complete (win32fe does not autodetect it), but I > can try. I may first use Cygwin, but somebody may > later use Python and other GNU utilities compiled for > Windows.
Hmm - not sure I understand this - but Cygwin is one version of Python & GNU utilities compiled for Windows. What alternative are you thinking of? > Could you please let me know if somebody has tried it > before? And what will be the problems, if I want to do > that? You can give it a try with the instructions for "Using Visual Studio 2005" and let us know if you encounter errors. http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/installation.html > Do you have a list of external tools used in > your build system? We don't have a complete list. It uses the basic unix tools like pwd, wc, uniq, sort and then the regular tools like grep, sed etc.. Most of them are available in a basic cygwin install [except for make/diff/python] > Also, where can I find sources for win32fe? http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/win32fe Satish
