On Mar 17, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Sonya Blade wrote: > >>>>> Cygwin is required to build PETSc, but not to use it. >>>> How about the MSys interface, which I've already installed. >>> >>> Not currently, as far as I know. >> >>> whats your compiler requirement? And why? >> I use gfortran which ships with MinGW and with Msys I feel more >> comfortable. > > Are you looking at sequential use of PETSc - or parallel? I see mpich > doesn't work with msys/mingw. And why not. It is far more natural than cygwin. > > You can try an install of petsc with msys - and see if it works. If not send > us logs at petsc-maint. > > [its possible things won't work - and you would have to use > cygwin/gfortran. Presumably it shouldn't conflict with your msys > install] > > Satish
