Re: [petsc-dev] Sowing: proposed change to allow single-entry lists on man pages

2019-07-01 Thread Gropp, William D via petsc-dev
If someone sends me the instructions, I can create the pull request (my experience with git is that each project has very particular requirements and things go better if I follow each projects specific checklist). Bill William Gropp Director and Chief Scientist, NCSA Thomas M. Siebel Chair in

Re: [petsc-dev] Sowing: proposed change to allow single-entry lists on man pages

2019-07-01 Thread Balay, Satish via petsc-dev
Bill, The generic pull request instructions are at: https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/wiki/Home#markdown-header-contributing-to-petsc https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/wiki/pull-request-instructions-git Some of the instructions are wrt a fork. With write access to the petsc repo - you can

Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc

2019-07-01 Thread Mills, Richard Tran via petsc-dev
I played around with WSL1 quite some time ago and it seemed pretty promising. I have not tried WSL2, but I'm guessing that it may be the best option for building PETSc on a Windows 10 machine. I've got a Windows 10 machine (it basically just runs my television/media center) and I'll give it a

Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc

2019-07-01 Thread Mills, Richard Tran via petsc-dev
Ah, OK. I was originally just thinking that many people would be happy if they can get PETSc to simply work with GCC or Clang that they get from the package manager used in the WSL setup. I believe both the Microsoft and Intel compilers are all available for free these days, so I'll install

Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc

2019-07-01 Thread Balay, Satish via petsc-dev
This discussion comes up each time a user has issues with cygwin. For any alternate system, we would have to redo win32fe functionality for that system. * Marshal gcc type compiler options to Cl * Convert paths in some of these options from this system ( for ex cygwin paths) to

Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc

2019-07-01 Thread Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev
Richard, Thanks. The important thing is to be able to build PETSc for Microsoft and Intel Windows compilers (so that users can use the libraries from the Microsoft development system as a "regular" Windows users). Barry > On Jul 1, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Mills, Richard Tran via

Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc

2019-07-01 Thread Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev
https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/pull-requests/1836/installationhtml-edited-online-with/diff I try to provide a better guild for Windows possibilities without windows compilers. (Could probably do with some light editing). Maybe more options? Satish, At the bottom of the Windows