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

2019-07-03 Thread John R. Cary via petsc-dev
> Satish > > From: Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev > Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 2:17 PM > To: Mills, Richard Tran > Cc: petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc > > >Ri

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

2019-07-02 Thread Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev
gt; • Have the ability equivalent to Windows process spawning >>> cygwin process spawning Windows process. Wsl1 lacked this. Don't know about >>> wsl2.. >>> > >>> > Current issue with cygwin was some bash config issue. Even if we >

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

2019-07-02 Thread Balay, Satish via petsc-dev
if we manage > to port build tools to wsl2 or alternative system, such sub-tool issues can > still come up in the new system. > > > > > > Satish > > > > From: Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev > > Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 2:17 PM >

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

2019-07-02 Thread Ham, David A via petsc-dev
> Satish > > From: Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev > Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 2:17 PM > To: Mills, Richard Tran > Cc: petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc > > >R

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

2019-07-02 Thread Pierre Jolivet via petsc-dev
sues can >> still come up in the new system. >> >> >> Satish >> >> From: Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev >> Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 2:17 PM >> To: Mills, Richard Tran >> Cc: petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov >> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cy

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

2019-07-01 Thread Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev
sh config issue. Even if we manage to > port build tools to wsl2 or alternative system, such sub-tool issues can > still come up in the new system. > > > Satish > > From: Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev > Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 2:17 PM > To: Mills, Richard

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
@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] alternatives to cygwin on Windows with PETSc 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

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 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

2019-06-29 Thread Jed Brown via petsc-dev
"Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev" 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

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

2019-06-29 Thread Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev
Does it make sense to recommend/suggest git bash for Windows as an alternative/in addition to Cygwin? Barry