[Libmesh-devel] Cygwin Support

[KIRK, B. (JSC-E. (NASA) <ben...@na...>]

I received an email a week or so ago, and for the life of me I can't find
it...  It asked specifically about Cygwin support.  So, I'm sending this to
the devel and users lists in hopes it finds the interested parties.

I just installed cygwin on my windows machine (actually, cygwin is running
under windows which is running in vmware under linux, talk about contrived!)
here and was able to run the examples with no problem.  Note, however, that
shared libraries are not supported under cygwin at the current time.  The
following should work:

./configure --disable-shared
make run_examples

or at least it did for me with a fresh cygwin install using gcc-3.3.3.
Perhaps in the future I'll change configure so that it recogizes cygwin and
disables shared libraries automatically.

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Benjamin S. Kirk
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