Well our build tools use cygwin - but the library is built with MS/Intel compilers - they use paths in windows notation.
I'm not sure if there is a way to get windows PATHs without ':' Satish On Mon, 22 Nov 2021, Matthew Knepley wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:36 AM Milan Pelletier < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Matt, > > Thanks for the answer. I could fix my issue regarding unbalanced events - > > and so SNES ex5 does work well too. > > By the way, such imbalance does not trigger errors when log_view is using > > plain ascii output, but it does fail when ascii_xml is used instead. > > > > Yes, we have a "failsafe" for the regular logging, but the XML is > specifically hierarchical and we do not know how to close it. We could take > another look at that. > > > > Unfortunately, regarding absolute paths, I had also tried to use cygwin > > paths (`/cygdrive/c/...`) but that does not work either. > > > > Hmm, that should work I think. Satish, do we have a machine to login and > test something like this? > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > Best, > > Milan > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > Le lundi 22 novembre 2021 à 2:39 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> > > a écrit : > > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:38 AM Milan Pelletier via petsc-users < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Dear PETSc team, > >> > >> The way some options are passed to PETSc can be an issue on Windows, in > >> particular regarding the "log_view" option. > >> Since the colon ':' character is used as a separator, I do not see how > >> absolute paths should be provided on Windows (since the drive name includes > >> a colon). Is there a trick / workaround to overcome this? > >> > > > > I thought we used Cygwin paths, but maybe one of the Windows people knows > > better. > > > > > >> Besides, when I try to use the ascii_xml format, it crashes in file > >> xmllogevent.c, on line 751: > >> illegalEvent = 1+nestedEvents[nNestedEvents-1].nstEvent; > >> (since nestedEvents is NULL). > >> > > > > This likely means that you have unbalanced events. I can run this on > > examples. For instance does SNES ex5 work for you? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matt > > > > > >> I'm using PETSc version 3.16.1 (using `git checkout tags/v3.16.1`). > >> > >> Thanks for your help, > >> Best regards, > >> Milan Pelletier > >> > >> > > > > -- > > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their > > experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their > > experiments lead. > > -- Norbert Wiener > > > > https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ > > <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/> > > > > > > > >
