On Mar 17, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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. Why compile python? Windows already has a perfectly good python to use. > > 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 >> >> >
