> On Sep 28, 2021, at 11:33 AM, Lucas Banting <banti...@myumanitoba.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My overall goal is to send a sparse matrix to PETSc (in WSL)from MATLAB (in 
> Windows) so I can use SLEPc for some eigenvalue routines, and send those 
> eigenvectors back to MATLAB, as the MATLAB eigs() struggles with my matrix 
> and I was looking to experiment with different eigenvalue algorithms.
> 
> I was trying to configure PETSc on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). 
> Configuring without '--with-matlab' works fine. I tried the configure command:
> 
> ./configure --with-scalar-type=complex 
> --with-openblas-dir=~/software/OpenBLAS/
> --with-matlab-dir=/mnt/e/Program\ Files/MATLAB/R2020b
> 
> I was wondering if there is a fundamental reason this configure won't work, 
> or if it is just the space in 'Program Files' that is breaking the configure 
> command. 

   We cannot tell without the configure.log file. Note you may be able to use 
the shorten MS DOS directory names which do not have spaces for that directory?

> 
> I think the only thing configuring with MATLAB is 'sopen' and 'sclose'?

  Yes

> Is it possible I could just remake these on my own for a WSL compatible 
> version?

  The building of sopen and sclose is something you can do directly by 
adjusting the makefile  by hand to link the correct files. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lucas

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