Re: [petsc-users] Petsc with Windows

2016-11-30 Thread E. Tadeu
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Boris Kaus wrote: > > > This is probably a better choice than Cygwin going forward. > > > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about > > > > I don't know to what extent PETSc users have experimented with this > > feature, but it should make it easier

Re: [petsc-users] Petsc with Windows

2016-11-30 Thread E. Tadeu
Hi Elaine, The PETSc configured/built in Cygwin can be normally used outside of it. It can either be statically linked with your software, or linked as a .DLL and deployed normally :). On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Elaine Tang wrote: > Hi, > > I am developing some software on windows that

Re: [petsc-users] Petsc with Windows

2016-11-30 Thread Boris Kaus
> This is probably a better choice than Cygwin going forward. > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about > > I don't know to what extent PETSc users have experimented with this > feature, but it should make it easier to build and distribute PETSc. We have tried this in Mainz, and

Re: [petsc-users] Petsc with Windows

2016-11-30 Thread Mohammad Mirzadeh
May I propose docker as an alternative approach? https://www.docker.com There are already petsc images and creating your own environment is not that hard. As a bonus you get a cross platform solution ... unless your application is windows specific in which case docker might not be the best way to

Re: [petsc-users] Petsc with Windows

2016-11-29 Thread Jed Brown
Elaine Tang writes: > I am developing some software on windows that would like to utilize petsc > library. Currently I have petsc library configured on cygwin on my windows > machine. This is probably a better choice than Cygwin going forward. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/ab