Charm++ parallel programming system

[Gengbin Zheng <gzheng AT uiuc.edu>]

Sangamesh,

I have no access to a windows box with SUA, so I have no experience 
with it.
I suppose you can write a simple shell script called "cygpath" which 
returns exactly the same path as input.

Gengbin


Sangamesh B wrote:
> Hi Gengbin,
>
>       Since CYGWIN is a 3rd party tool, we've come out of it. Now 
> using only SUA.
>
> The charm++ distribution contains two build files for windows:
>
> net-cygwin (gcc)
> net-win64 (VC++)
>
> If used SUA, both are not helpful, as the build files contain "cygpath".
>
> In SUA, we use "cc" as a C/C++ compiler. "cc" is a clever shell script 
> which uses internally VC++ and handles the INCLUDE and LIBRARY paths.
>
> So the paths used in net-win64, produce error on SUA,
>
> So if you can send build file for SUA or else advise the required 
> changes to be made for the build file?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sangamesh
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Gengbin Zheng <gzheng AT uiuc.edu 
> <mailto:gzheng AT uiuc.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>     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>
>             
> <mailto: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