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Hi Frank,

How to compile the source code to get OpenSeesMP in Windows?

Thanks.

I have the same question too! I found out that other projects must be compiled first, but I cannot do it because they fail compiling.

it is not a trivial matter .. a number of external parallel numerical libraries must be built, e.g. Scalapack, Mumps, BLACS, Mumps and linked with an mpi library, i used mpich2.

Thanks Frank,

Could you please provide more details or steps to be followed or any reference?

andreascj wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> How to compile the source code to get OpenSeesMP in Windows?
>
> Thanks.
Does you compile the source code to get OpenSeesMP success in Windows? I have the same question too!

dear fmk,
I get Scalapack, Mumps, BLACS, Mumps and mpich2 libraries (static, .lib) for windows, can you give some information on what to do next (e.g. how to set the parallel compilation in visual studio)?

thanks

what can i say .. the libraries need to be compiled and linked with .. i created another project with the soultion and added a whole bunch more files that are not needed for sequential but are for parallel (MovableObjct, MPI_Channel, MPI_MachineBroker, .... there is about 40 files) .. it is not easy .. if i remember correctly i had to use an older fortran compiler for the mumps lib as latest would not work .. there are some preprocessor directives that also need to get set .. i d not release it because if i update the project files it screws everything up for people compiling on windows.

dear fmk,
thanks for your reply. However, it seems harder that described. As I said, I got mumps (and blacs) and scalapack for windows, but the referenced LIB files in OpenSeesSP and MP projects are not so clear. I found:
blacsCinit_MPI-Win32
blacs_MPI-Win32
scalapackd
mumpsFortran
mumps

Can you provide a short description for each of them? I can compile the version required of MUMPS (4.7.3) and I think I'm getting the same libraries but I need to know what is inside each of them in your original compilation.

Moreover, SuperLU_distrib must be compiled from the files in OTHER\SuperLU_DIST_2.5 or OTHER\SuperLU_DIST_2.0 ?

Thanks a lot,
Giovanni

The point was the name of the libs. It is necessary to publish some instructions on the wiki.

in the event that you must form it on your machine you require some adaptation of mpi introduced. at that point take a stab at building MP utilizing one of the parallel Makefiles BUT say no to mumps and petsc. on the off chance that you traverse that then you can attempt and introduce mumps. you require mumps and the parallel scalapack and parallel blas and perhaps one other package.

thanks for this post now i can compile openseesMp