On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Barry Smith wrote: > > 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.
Sorry - forgot to post this link. http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2010-July/007458.html > It is far more natural than cygwin. How so? Even python [which is now considered a universal requirement?] doesn't compile on it. Satish > > > > > 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 > >
