Hi Alexander, Are you running Windows HPC edition? According to google, it is required for the referred MPI Cluster Debugger.
I would also appreciate some more hints on "and something else", if you have them. Many thanks, Dominik On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Alexander Grayver <agrayver at gfz-potsdam.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I work with Petsc both under Linux and Windows. > I develop in Fortran and it makes things even more tricky sometimes. My > compilers are those included in VS 2008 and IFC 12 + MKL's BLAS/LAPACK for > Fortran (however I started to work with petsc using IFC 10.1 and downloaded > BLAS/LAPACK using petsc configure options). > The most tricky part for me was to build petsc properly, although all > problems are directly and indirectly related to the Fortran usage. So if you > write in C/C++ I would say it's going to be easy for you. Anyway I can share > my configuration line if you get some problems. > I use VS IDE and debug applications in it. For sequential programs it is no > problems, for MPI you have to install some additional tools (MPI Cluster > Debugger and something else) and just switch debugger type from VS whenever > you want. To make this debugger working with IFC cost me a couple of days > and a lot of googling, but again for C/C++ it should be easy. > Unfortunately, there are no things like valgrind for Windows. I couldn't > find at least. > > Regards, > Alexander > > On 06.11.2011 11:43, Dominik Szczerba wrote: >> >> I am normally working and developing my codes on linux, only compiling >> them at the end for Windows, but need to evaluate the possibilities to >> also efficiently develop on Windows. Is anyone developing Petsc based >> applications on Windows and could share some experiences? In >> particular, is it possible to debug only on Cygwin's gdb port or also >> to use (somehow) the Visual Studio's built in debugger? Are there >> tools comparable to valgrind to detect MPI-aware illegal memory >> accesses and leaks? I heard about TotalView, but never worked with it. >> >> Thanks for any thoughts, >> Dominik > >
