Richard, The current issue is with MS compiler build - with MS-MPI. WSL doesn't help for this case. [assuming 'abaqus' requirement requires a native build with MS compilers] Wrt WSL/PETSc - yeah build goes through fine - but 'make alltests' give random hangs/errors in MPI calls for me.. Satish On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Richard Mills wrote:

Hi Mohammad,

Have you considered not using Cygwin and instead using the beta "Windows Subsystem for Linux" that provides a layer for running ELF binaries and using Ubuntu packages? I've not tried building PETSc with it yet, but I've been impressed at how well it works when I have tried other things. Quick Google search comes up with this page that briefly talks about it and how to enable it:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-and-bash-arrive-on-windows-10/

Best regards, Richard

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Mohammad S Dodaran <[email protected]> wrote:

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Dear Petsc developers,

I am trying to install Petsc on windows 10 but I have a problem. I installed MS-MPI v8 <http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/p/?LinkID=389556> separately and in the configure options I use

--with-mpi-include="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ SDKs/MPI/Include" --with-mpi-lib="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ SDKs/MPI/Lib/x64/msmpi.lib"

But it gives error which says:

*************************************************************** ERROR in COMMAND LINE ARGUMENT to ./configure ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Invalid directory: [/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ SDKs/MPI/Include for key with-mpi-include

How should I solve it?

Mohammad