On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Chetan Jhurani wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:petsc-dev-bounces at > > mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Satish Balay > > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:04 PM > > To: For users of the development version of PETSc > > Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] c2html and sowing fail on windows. > > > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Chetan Jhurani wrote: > > > > > > > > Of course, using "--with-sowing=0 --with-c2html=0" > > > avoids the issue for now, but both the packages don't > > > work on windows out of the box. > > > > These packages need cygwin gcc/g++ installed [and flex for c2html] > > Thanks Satish. I had kept the least number of packages described here > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/installation.html#windows > so as to have a fixed portable but standard cygwin, which could be > very small when zipped up. Perhaps the requirement of flex/gcc/g++ > (for these two packages) can be added there.
those instructions are for tarball installs. Hg repo installs have optional extra requirements sowing,c2html documented at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/developers/index.html I can add in a windows/cygwin note there.. Satish
