On May 6, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2013, Chetan Jhurani wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the current status of building PETSc DLL on Windows?
>>
>> Can a DLL be generated via old (non-CMake) configure with some
>> extra flags?
>
> Nope.
>
>>
>> I couldn't find something quickly via Google and I thought
>> I'll ask. Specifically, I see this code in petscsys.h.
>>
>> #if defined(_WIN32) && defined(PETSC_USE_SHARED_LIBRARIES) /* For Win32
>> shared libraries */
>> # define PETSC_DLLEXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
>> # define PETSC_DLLIMPORT __declspec(dllimport)
>>
>> Is this being used?
>
> Not yet. Perhaps it will be used when build tools are rehauled to not use
> cygwin.
Generating DLL shouldn't have anything to do with cygwin or not? So long
as using Microsoft compilers. What is holding up a DLL?
Barry
>
> Satish
>
