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 petsc-dev
> <petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> 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 try on
> there.
>
> --Richard
>
> On 6/29/19 8:11 PM, Jed Brown via petsc-dev wrote:
>> "Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev" <petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov>
>> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Does it make sense to recommend/suggest git bash for Windows as an
>>> alternative/in addition to Cygwin?
>>>
>> I would love to be able to recommend git-bash and/or WSL2 (which now
>> includes a full Linux kernel). I don't have a system on which to test,
>> but it should be possible to make it work (if it doesn't already).
>>
>
