[Trilinos-Users] Building Trilinos with MS Visual Studio

[Bartlett, Roscoe A]

Dan,

Thanks for the feedback.  This will help us get our MS Windows port with CMake working.

Note that we have purposefully not addressed the MS Windows port with CMake yet because we have not yet made the official transition to CMake as out primary build system.  The plan is that once that is done, we will work out the issues with the MS Windows port and will set up nightly testing to keep it working from that point on.  Except for the standard dependency issues (i.e. BLAS, LAPACK, and MPI) we fully expect that all Stable code in Trilinos will build on MS Windows with MS Visual C++ "out of the box".

Thanks,

- Ross


> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilinos-users-bounces at software.sandia.gov 
> [mailto:trilinos-users-bounces at software.sandia.gov] On Behalf 
> Of Dan Erik Petersen
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:17 AM
> To: Trilinos-Users at software.sandia.gov
> Cc: Willenbring, James M
> Subject: [Trilinos-Users] Building Trilinos with MS Visual Studio
> 
> Hi fellow Trilinos users (and developers) -
> 
> I just recently managed to build a good deal of packages from 
> Trilinos and I just wanted to post back my results with 
> getting it up and running on Windows XP using Visual Studio 
> Express 2008. Besides this, I have installed Intel's MKL 10.0 
> for fast BLAS and LAPACK routines.  
> Keep in mind that I'm building a pre-release version of 
> Trilinos with better CMake support.
> 
> I have condensed things into two files : one is the configure 
> script to call cmake with, and is placed within the cmake 
> directory at the root of the Trilinos expanded tarball. The 
> second is a list of what files I went into and modified in 
> order to get things to compile. I hope this is reproducible, 
> and my greatest hope is that one day Trilinos builds on 
> Windows using Visual Studio out-of-the-box =)
> 
> Happy holidays,
> 
> Dan;
> 
>