Charm++ parallel programming system

[Gengbin Zheng <gzheng AT uiuc.edu>]

Sangamesh,

 If you check out latest charm from CVS, you can now compile charm++ 
with mingw like:

./build charm++ net-cygwin mingw

follow the instruction in charm/README.cygwin to install mingw win32api 
library.


Gengbin

Gengbin Zheng wrote:
> Sangamesh,
>
> you can build charm/NAMD using visual studio compiler, but you need to 
> install  cygwin to use "Make" and shell like in Linux. Using VC++ 
> compiler, you will not have cygwin1.dll issue. Please see 
> charm/README.win for some detailed information. The latest charm++ in 
> CVS has some changes I made last night that sorted out some 
> compilation errors with VC++.
>
> -mno-cygwin requires MingW runtime, we never tried that before. But it 
> should work with some tweaks. If you are interested in using mingW, I 
> can take a look.
>
> Gengbin
>
> Sangamesh B wrote:
> > Hi Gengbin,
> >
> >
> >      We built Charm and NAMD on Windows using Cygwin.
> >
> > The charmrun.exe and namd2.exe executables contain cygwin1.dll 
> > dynamic library.
> >
> > To remove this, we used "-mno-cygwin", in 
> > src/arch/net-cygwin/conv-mach.sh
> > as follows:
> >
> > CMK_CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
> > CMK_CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin"
> >
> > But it thrown an error, during compilation.
> >
> > Can you tell me where we can mention this or any other option, which 
> > can produce the executables free from cygwin1.dll.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Sangamesh
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Gengbin Zheng <gzheng AT uiuc.edu 
> > <mailto:gzheng AT uiuc.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Please find README.win under charm top level directory for the
> >     instruction on how to install Charm++ on windows.
> >     Cygwin is required. Installing Cygwin on windows vista has all
> >     sorts of problems (mostly hang during installation). There are
> >     some workaround if you search on the web.
> >
> >     Gengbin
> >
> >
> >     Sangamesh B wrote:
> >
> >
> >         Hi All,
> >
> >            We're trying to compile charm++ (For NAMD compilation) on
> >         Windows. Till now we tried:
> >
> >         1. Compiling on native Windows: Visual C++ compiler and using
> >         nmake command.
> >          Makefile.win32 refers to a folder called "Common", which is
> >         not available in src dir. Edited  Makefile.win32 according the
> >         dir structure.
> >         failed andd couldn't proceed.
> >
> >         2. Using SUA: SUA doesn't have bash shell. Installation of
> >         bash on SUA also failed.
> >         Then used sh shell. This also failed.
> >         Is Charm++/Charmc compilation certainly require bash?
> >
> >         3. Cygwin: Initial stage - errors. Still not completed.
> >          Has any one compiled cham++ on windows? Can you share your
> >         experience with us..
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >         Sangamesh