[Trilinos-Users] Building Zoltan on Windows

[Dave Wade-Stein]

Thanks, Ross!

In the meantime I am working my way through the cmake code. If you have any pointers, I'm all ears.

Dave

On Jun 24, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Bartlett, Roscoe A. <bartlettra at ornl.gov> wrote:

> Dave,
>  
> This has been added to the full TriBITS backlog:
>  
>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WKs8rJhI3037yKGnEVMhIx9dPN7a7uFRM5isdNAhAXI/edit#bookmark=kix.lshrq5nmnfno
>  
> But not sure when I can get to this given other priorities.
>  
> But if some wants to chip in feel free to submit a an issue ticket at:
>  
>      https://github.com/TriBITSPub/TriBITS/issues
>  
> or issue a pull request.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> -Ross
>  
> From: Dave Wade-Stein [mailto:dws at txcorp.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 11:52 AM
> To: Bartlett, Roscoe A.
> Cc: trilinos-users at trilinos.org
> Subject: Re: [Trilinos-Users] Building Zoltan on Windows
>  
> Just in case my message wasn't clear, I am suggesting that the default behavior be that CMake would quit with an error, but provide, say, a second variable one could set to produce the current behavior. My predecessor spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on because he missed that message (or perhaps that message wasn't in earlier versions of Trilinos).
>  
> Thanks,
> Dave
>  
> On Jun 24, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Dave Wade-Stein <dws at txcorp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Ross,
>  
> Ah, I see
>  
> ***
> *** WARNING: User has set Trilinos_ENABLE_Zoltan=ON but the
> *** package Zoltan is not supported on this platform type 'Windows'!
> ***
>  
> ...but hadn't noticed that before. I am a very eager user, so I guess I will go through the logic to enable and see if I can eventually get it to build.
>  
> I would think in a case like this, the CMake should exit with a message as above, along with an addendum that says something like:
>  
>           NOTE: If you really want to try building this, set such-and-such flag to TRUE and give it a whirl.
>  
> Thanks,
> Dave
>  
> On Jun 24, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Bartlett, Roscoe A. <bartlettra at ornl.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dave,
> 
> It is flagged as being disabled by default on Windows in the file PackagesList.cmake with the command:
> 
> 
> TRIBITS_DISABLE_PACKAGE_ON_PLATFORMS(Zoltan Windows)
> 
> 
> This makes the disabled by default in all logic but I think still allows you to try to enable it (in case you want to try to get it to work for some reason). 
> 
> Just curious, if you grep the 'cmake' output for "Zoltan", what does it show?  
> 
> I should think about how to handle situations like this.  On one hand, we don't want users like you to think that a package might be supported on a platform when it is not but we don't want to stop a very eager user who wants to try to fix a port from enabling it either.
> 
> What should the behavior be?
> 
> -Ross
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trilinos-Users [mailto:trilinos-users-bounces at trilinos.org] On Behalf
> Of Dave Wade-Stein
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 11:27 AM
> To: trilinos-users at trilinos.org
> Subject: [Trilinos-Users] Building Zoltan on Windows
> 
> Has anyone had success building Zoltan on Windows?
> 
> We're finding that Trilinos says it's building Zoltan, but nothing happens-no
> failures, but no libraries are generated. Behavior is the same from the
> packages/zoltan subdir-jom (nmake) produces a couple of lines of output
> indicating that it's changing directory, but no build commands are being
> executed.
> 
> I'm slugging my way through the CMakeLists.txt files, but if anyone has
> already solved this issue, please let me know.
> 
> I'm using Visual Studio 2013 (VS12) and Trilinos 11.14.3.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave

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