On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:47 AM, marco atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/1/2012 5:08 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> I think we'd be interested in looking at possibly adding this to the >> code base. We still need to announce this (and will shortly), but our >> Windows maintainer has moved on to other pastures. So support for native >> Windows operations is ending with the 1.6 series, barring someone >> stepping up to fill the void. >> >> Having a cygwin alternative would let people at least continue to work >> on the Windows platform, albeit in a different mode. Is this something >> you are interested in pursuing? > > Hi Ralph, > there is no special code on my packages, so deploying a cygwin package > was already on my plan. > It will be just an addition to the other packages for which I am already > the cygwin package maintainer > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint > > I want just to be sure that it works as expect before deploying it, > and testing on a notebook is a bit limited. > > The only peculiarity I noticed is that the stripped binaries do > not work, so the current package is based on unstripped installation. > > Other step is to look if other options can be enabled: > > LDFLAGS="-Wl,--export-all-symbols -no-undefined" \ > --disable-mca-dso \ > --without-udapl \ > --enable-cxx-exceptions \ > --with-threads=posix \ > --without-cs-fs \ > --enable-heterogeneous \ > --with-mpi-param_check=always \ > --enable-contrib-no-build=vt,libompitrace \ > --enable-mca-no-build=memory_mallopt,paffinity,installdirs-windows,timer-windows,shmem-sysv > > at least "shmem-sysv" should be possible. I see - that is even better than I had hoped! One question for you: does this only allow single-machine operations, or can people run across machines, assuming both are executing cygwin? Guess I'm not sure how the latter would work, but my knowledge of cygwin is very old. > > Regards > Marco > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
