Are you sure this is cygwin from OpenMPI? I don't see it refer to -lmpi_cxx
balay@ps5 ~/petsc $ which mpicxx /usr/bin/mpicxx balay@ps5 ~/petsc $ mpicxx -show g++ -L/usr/lib -lmpi -lopen-rte -lopen-pal -lm -lgdi32 -lz Here is what I get with cygwin/openmpi,lapack,blas Satish ------- balay@ps5 ~/petsc $ ./configure --with-scalar-type=real --with-x=0 --with-hdf5 --download-hdf5=1 --with-single-library=1 --with-shared-libraries=0 --with-log=0 --with-clanguage=C++ --with-cxx-d ialect=C++11 --CXXFLAGS="-fopenmp -fPIC" --CFLAGS="-fopenmp -fPIC" --with-fortran=0 --FFLAGS="-fopenmp -fPIC" --with-64-bit-indices=0 --with-debugging=0 --with-cc=mpicc --with -fc=mpif77 --with-cxx=mpicxx COPTFLAGS=-O3 CXXOPTFLAGS=-O3 FOPTFLAGS=-O3 --with-fortran-kernels=0 =============================================================================== Configuring PETSc to compile on your system =============================================================================== =============================================================================== WARNING -with-clanguage=C++ is a developer feature and is *not* required for regular usage of PETSc either from C or C++ =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Trying to download git://https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-sowing.git for SOWING =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Running configure on SOWING; this may take several minutes =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Running make on SOWING; this may take several minutes =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Running make install on SOWING; this may take several minutes =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Trying to download https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.10/hdf5-1.10.5/src/hdf5-1.10.5.tar.gz for HDF5 =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Running configure on HDF5; this may take several minutes =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Running make on HDF5; this may take several minutes =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Running make install on HDF5; this may take several minutes =============================================================================== Compilers: C Compiler: mpicc -fopenmp -fPIC -O3 Version: gcc (GCC) 7.4.0 C++ Compiler: mpicxx -fopenmp -fPIC -O3 Version: g++ (GCC) 7.4.0 Fortran Compiler: mpif77 -fopenmp -fPIC -O3 Version: GNU Fortran (GCC) 7.4.0 Linkers: Static linker: /usr/bin/ar cr Dynamic linker: /usr/bin/ar Libraries linked against: -lgdi32 -luser32 -ladvapi32 -lkernel32 -lquadmath -lstdc++ -ldl make: Version: 4.2 /usr/bin/make BlasLapack: Library: -llapack -lblas uses 4 byte integers MPI: Version: 3 Mpiexec: mpiexec --oversubscribe OMPI_VERSION: 3.1.3 pthread: hdf5: Version: 1.10.5 Includes: -I/home/balay/petsc/arch-mswin-cxx-opt/include Library: -Wl,-rpath,/home/balay/petsc/arch-mswin-cxx-opt/lib -L/home/balay/petsc/arch-mswin-cxx-opt/lib -lhdf5hl_fortran -lhdf5_fortran -lhdf5_hl -lhdf5 cmake: Version: 3.14.5 /usr/bin/cmake sowing: Version: 1.1.25 /home/balay/petsc/arch-mswin-cxx-opt/bin/bfort Language used to compile PETSc: Cxx PETSc: PETSC_ARCH: arch-mswin-cxx-opt PETSC_DIR: /home/balay/petsc Scalar type: real Precision: double Support for __float128 Integer size: 4 bytes shared libraries: disabled Memory alignment from malloc(): 16 bytes xxx=========================================================================xxx Configure stage complete. Now build PETSc libraries with: make PETSC_DIR=/home/balay/petsc PETSC_ARCH=arch-mswin-cxx-opt all xxx=========================================================================xxx balay@ps5 ~/petsc $ On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, Povolotskyi, Mykhailo wrote: > I checked: > > I cannot build C++ programs with MPI, but I can build and run C programs > with MPI. > > I have -with-log=0 because there is an overhead if many small objects > are created, which is my case. > > As for the fortran, I will removeĀ --with-fortran=0 > > On 12/5/2019 11:53 PM, Smith, Barry F. wrote: > > Can you actually build and run C++ programs with the MPI? > > > > Executing: mpicxx -o /tmp/petsc-Llvze6/config.setCompilers/conftest.exe > > -fopenmp -fPIC /tmp/petsc-Llvze6/config.setCompilers/conftest.o > > Possible ERROR while running linker: exit code 1 > > stderr: > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/7.4.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: > > cannot find -lmpi_cxx > > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > Error testing C++ compiler: Cannot compile/link Cxx with mpicxx. > > MPI installation mpicxx is likely incorrect. > > Use --with-mpi-dir to indicate an alternate MPI. > > > > Also you have --with-fortran=0 > > > > but --download-fblaslapack and FOPTFLAGS=-O3 > > > > and why do you have --with-log=0 it costs no overhead if you do not use > > it and is always useful for tracking performance. > > > > Barry > > > > > >> On Dec 5, 2019, at 9:19 PM, Povolotskyi, Mykhailo <mpovo...@purdue.edu> > >> wrote: > >> > >> Dear Petsc support team, > >> > >> for some reasons I have to build petsc under Windows. > >> > >> I have installed Cygwin with GNU compilers and OpenMPI. > >> > >> Unfortunately, the configuration fails with the following message: > >> > >> TESTING: checkCxxCompiler from > >> config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:814) > >> ******************************************************************************* > >> UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log > >> for details): > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> C++ compiler you provided with -with-cxx=mpicxx does not work. > >> Cannot compile/link Cxx with mpicxx. > >> > >> I'm attaching the *.log file. > >> > >> Please advise, > >> > >> Michael. > >> > >> <configure.log> >