[mpich-discuss] cross compiling using mpich

[Rob Latham]

On 04/16/2015 08:33 AM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
> https://wiki.mpich.org/mpich/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Q:_Why_can.27t_I_build_MPICH_on_Windows_anymore.3F
>

well jeff since you unhelpfully replied to this poor guy with a link to 
the wiki that he already got last week, allow me to be pedantic for a 
moment:  he's not building mpich *on* windows.  he's building mpich 
*for* windows.  *On* linux.

None of us have ever done that, though, so mapalo92 is on his/her own.

==rob



> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:37 AM, mapalo92 . <mapalo2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> my target is windows and my host is linux
>>
>> 2015-04-09 17:07 GMT+03:00 Rob Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov>:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/09/2015 03:33 AM, mapalo92 . wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is possible to use mpich in order to cross compile between windows and
>>>> linux? I tried to built mpich 's libraries using mingw-w64 but nothing
>>>> done. I got many many errors. Any feedback will be helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>> which is your target and which is your host? If you are building a linux
>>> target on a windows host, you might be better off setting up a virtual
>>> machine and doing your cross compilation there.
>>>
>>> In general, cross compilation works with mpich: we do it regularly for
>>> Blue Gene.
>>>
>>> ==rob
>>>
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