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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> OK.  I may see if I can just get it to compile by changing the few 
> 'underscore' errors that show up.  But I will seriously consider the 
> virtualbox.  One thing that bothers me is having to limit the RAM 
> accessible by the virtualbox (this would impact dolfin if I were 
> computing something big).
>
> Actually, could I just run a virtual terminal on my windows PC that 
> connects to some other linux box?  Orginally, I wanted to avoid this 
> because I was unix retarded.  However, in the process of mucking with 
> all this compiling, I am now less retarded.  Is this a viable option?

Yes.

Garth

> - Shawn
>
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>
> > Shawn Walker wrote:
> > > I understand.  I got the umfpack part working.  I was just messing up 
> > > the include directories.  But I still have that other error.
> > >
> > > It has to do with the following code:
> > >
> > > ublas_sparse_matrix& _B = B.mat();
> > >
> > > If I change '_B' to say Bq, then it compiles fine.  For some reason 
> > > it doesn't like the underscore.  I guess this has to do with your 
> > > 'templates' comment. 
> >
> > If you can get it all to work, create a hg bundle and mail it to this 
> > list. Instructions on how to create a bundle can be found at the end 
> > of the DOLFIN manual.
> >
> > If this is just a compiler issue, then I think I
> > > can upgrade the compiler manually to gcc 4.3.
> >
> > Apparently there are some serious technical obstacles with gcc 4.x and 
> > Cywgin, so I don't expect that this will be trivial.
> >
> > > For this virtual machine, is it a pain in the ass to setup?  It 
> > > looked like it was just an emulator for any operating system you 
> > > want.  Does that mean it will be slow?  I assume it is just as 
> > > flexible as cygwin, if not more.
> >
> > VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org) is free and very easy to use. 
> > My experience is that if you have a relatively new processor and 
> > enable the virtualisation option in the BIOS, performance is near native.
> >
> > Garth
> >
> > > - Shawn
> > >
> > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > >
> > > > Shawn Walker wrote:
> > > > > OK, here we go again.  I disabled UMFPACK, and the compilation goes 
> > > > > further, but I get the following error:
> > > > >
> > > > > ----------------------------------------------
> > > > > $ scons withBoostDir=$BOOST_DIR withUmfpackDir=$UMFPACK_DIR 
> > > > > enableDemos=yes enableScotch=no enableTrilinos=no enableMpi=no 
> > > > > enablePetsc=no enableSlepc=no enableUmfpack=no enableDebug=no
> > > > >
> > > > > scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> > > > > Using options from scons/options.cache
> > > > > Checking for pkg-config... yes
> > > > > Checking for numpy-1... yes
> > > > > Checking for ufc-1... yes
> > > > > Checking for python-2... yes
> > > > > Checking for gts... yes
> > > > > Checking for boost... yes
> > > > > Checking for libxml-2.0... yes
> > > > > Resolving compiler... done
> > > > > Found optional package: gts
> > > > > Unable to find optional package: petsc
> > > > > Unable to find optional package: slepc
> > > > > Unable to find optional package: scotch
> > > > > Unable to find optional package: umfpack
> > > > > Unable to find optional package: trilinos
> > > > > Enabling compilation of PyDOLFIN
> > > > >
> > > > > scons: warning: The env.Copy() method is deprecated; use the 
> > > > > env.Clone() method instead.
> > > > > File "/download/src/fenics/dolfin/dolfin/SConscript", line 107, in 
> > > > > <module>
> > > > > scons: done reading SConscript files.
> > > > > scons: Building targets ...
> > > > > c++ -o dolfin/common/TimeDependent.os -c -Wall -pipe -DNDEBUG -O2 
> > > > > -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0.8.0\" -DHAS_GTS=1 -I. 
> > > > > -I/download/src/boost_1_35_0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 
> > > > > -I/build/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 
> > > > > -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include dolfin/common/TimeDependent.cpp
> > > > >
> > > > > .....................etc...................
> > > > >
> > > > > c++ -o dolfin/ode/MonoAdaptiveJacobian.os -c -Wall -pipe -DNDEBUG 
> > > > > -O2 -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0.8.0\" -DHAS_GTS=1 -I. 
> > > > > -I/download/src/boost_1_35_0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 
> > > > > -I/build/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 
> > > > > -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include dolfin/ode/MonoAdaptiveJacobian.cpp
> > > > > c++ -o dolfin/ode/MonoAdaptiveNewtonSolver.os -c -Wall -pipe 
> > > > > -DNDEBUG -O2 -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0.8.0\" -DHAS_GTS=1 -I. 
> > > > > -I/download/src/boost_1_35_0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 
> > > > > -I/build/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 
> > > > > -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include dolfin/ode/MonoAdaptiveNewtonSolver.cpp
> > > > > dolfin/ode/MonoAdaptiveNewtonSolver.cpp: In member function `void 
> > > > > dolfin::MonoAdaptiveNewtonSolver::debug()':
> > > > > dolfin/ode/MonoAdaptiveNewtonSolver.cpp:265: error: expected 
> > > > > primary-expression before '&' token
> > > > > dolfin/ode/MonoAdaptiveNewtonSolver.cpp:286: error: `128' cannot be 
> > > > > used as a function
> > > > > scons: *** [dolfin/ode/MonoAdaptiveNewtonSolver.os] Error 1
> > > > > scons: building terminated because of errors.
> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > I tried this, and received the same error. It looks like like a 
> > > > Cygwin issue with templates, and is perhaps not surprising since 
> > > > Cywgin uses quite old compilers.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not going to spend time on work-arounds for Cygwin peculiarities 
> > > > and for gcc 3.x since running a virtual machine is a viable 
> > > > alternative now and there has been some work on compiling DOLFIN 
> > > > natively under Windows. If someone provides simple patches for 
> > > > Cywgin, we can apply them.
> > > >
> > > > Garth
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > If there were no errors, run
> > > > >
> > > > >      scons install
> > > > >
> > > > > .....................etc...................
> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas about this?  Again, I am using Cygwin and the latest 
> > > > > codes through Mercurial.
> > > > >
> > > > > - Shawn
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