Building GridPACK on Windows is not for the faint of heart.

System Preparation

The following are available as native Windows applications and can just be installed in the normal Windows way:

Visual C++ in some form.
- The "free" ones, Visual Studio Express and Community, should work.
Windows SDK
Usually, this is just installed with Visual Studio
CMake is required
A minimal Cygwin installation is necessary.
Cygwin is required to build, and test for, PETSc. If the system has a Cygwin installation that is being used, it would probably be best to make another installation for GridPACK installation exclusively.
- Minimum required packages:
  - Base
  - Python
- Rename /usr/bin/link.exe so it does not interfere with Windows LINK.EXE
- If you want to use a Cygwin shell to build and/or debug GridPACK applications:
  - Do not install a compiler set.
  - Do not install CMake.
Microsoft MPI
This appears to be the only modern implementation available for Windows. In the past, the OpenMPI and MPICH implementation were available for Windows, but no more.
Some software to unpack .zip, .gz, and tar archives. Commands to unpack all of these archives are available with Cygwin. Windows can handle .zip archives natively.
(optional) MS-MPI Debugger Extension is useful for debugging problem with parallel programs.

Build Required Libraries

In these instructions, everything is done from the Command Prompt. Open a 64-bit Visual Studio command prompt, which should be available from the Start Menu. Type, or copy and paste, the commands below into that command prompt window.
Choose a place to install libraries. C:\GridPACK is used in this case. Avoid a path with spaces or special characters in it. It's convenient to set an environment variable to hold this path. GridPACKDir is used here.
Make a folder there in which source archives can be unpacked and the builds can be performed. C:\GridPACK\src is used here. Again, avoid a path with spaces or special characters in it.
Prepare prepare VS/CMake to use MPI. Enter the command

   set msmpi

the response should be something like

   MSMPI_BIN=C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI\Bin\
   MSMPI_INC=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\MPI\Include\
   MSMPI_LIB32=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\MPI\Lib\x86\
   MSMPI_LIB64=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\MPI\Lib\x64\

Boost

Download source from here and unpack in %GridPACKDir%\src
Remember to set msmpi as described above
Bootstrap the boost.build, e.g.,

   .\bootstrap.bat

Add using mpi; to project-config.jam
As you might imagine, Boost is not built on Windows with MPI often. Consequently, it's a little out of date. The file mpi.jam needs to be modified. It's in a different place depending on the version. In Boost 1.61 it is ./tools/build/src/tools/mpi.jam. Modify mpi.jam to make it work using the following patch:

    247a248,250
    >     local win_ms_mpi_sdk = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SDKs\\MPI" ;
    >     local win_ms_mpi = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft MPI" ;
    >
    249,251c252,254
    <     local cluster_pack_path_native = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack" ;
    <     local cluster_pack_path = [ path.make $(cluster_pack_path_native) ] ;
    <     if [ GLOB $(cluster_pack_path_native)\\Include : mpi.h ]
    ---
    >     # local cluster_pack_path_native = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack" ;
    >     # local cluster_pack_path = [ path.make $(cluster_pack_path_native) ] ;
    >     if [ GLOB $(win_ms_mpi_sdk)\\Include : mpi.h ]
    255c258
    <         ECHO "Found Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack: $(cluster_pack_path_native)" ;
    ---
    >         ECHO "Found Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack: $(win_ms_mpi_sdk)" ;
    260,262c263,265
    <       options = <include>$(cluster_pack_path)/Include
    <                 <address-model>64:<library-path>$(cluster_pack_path)/Lib/amd64
    <                 <library-path>$(cluster_pack_path)/Lib/i386
    ---
    >       options = <include>$(win_ms_mpi_sdk)/Include
    >                 <address-model>64:<library-path>$(win_ms_mpi_sdk)/Lib/x64
    >                 <library-path>$(win_ms_mpi_sdk)/Lib/x86
    268c271
    <       .mpirun = "\"$(cluster_pack_path_native)\\Bin\\mpiexec.exe"\" ;
    ---
    >       .mpirun = "\"$(win_ms_mpi)\\Bin\\mpiexec.exe"\" ;

Configure, build, and install. The python library is not needed; iostreams is skipped unless some additional libraries are installed; graph_parallel fails to build (see this ticket). There are two options for building:

Option 1: just build what GridPACK requires (header-only libraries are still installed)

 .\b2 ^
   --prefix=%GridPACKDir% ^
   --with-mpi ^
   --with-serialization ^
   --with-random ^
   --with-filesystem ^
   --with-system ^
   --build-type=complete ^
   threading=single ^
   address-model=64 ^
   link=static runtime-link=shared ^
   install

Option 2: build everything (except python -- I'm not sure what's required for that)

 .\b2 ^
   --prefix=%GridPACKDir% ^
   --without-python ^
   --build-type=complete ^
   threading=single ^
   address-model=64 ^
   link=static runtime-link=shared ^
   install

Notes:

1.58.0 works with VS 2013
1.61.0 works with VS 2010, but requires update 5 for VS 2013 (see this ticket)
Boost decorates the library names with the compiler version, so explicitly specify the compiler and make sure that's the compiler you use for GridPACK.
Some references for these instructions:
- A pretty complete set of instructions for building Boost on Windows with MPI
- Some additional details.
- Official Boost build instructions.
- A pertinent Boost ticket.

BLAS/LAPACK (CLAPACK)

Some implementation of BLAS/LAPACK is required for PETSc and some other libraries. The implementation described here was chosen because it does not require a Fortran compiler. It is apparently really slow. It will probably be necessary to install Intel compilers and MKL in order to get improvement in speed. The Windows port of CLAPACK is described here.

Get the source here.
Configure, build, and install

   cmake -Wdev ^
       -G "Visual Studio 10 2010 Win64" ^
       -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="%GridPACKDir%" ^
       ..
   cmake --build . --config Release
   cmake --build . --target install --config Release

SuiteSparse

For use with PETSc
Get the source for the Windows port from here.
Needs BLAS/LAPACK that's consistent with PETSc, so try to just use the one PETSc likes.
Edit CMakeLists.txt to remove the library suffix at this point:

 ## get POSTFIX for lib install dir
 #if(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P MATCHES "8")
 #  set(LIB_POSTFIX "64" CACHE STRING "suffix for 32/64 inst dir placement")
 #else()
   set(LIB_POSTFIX "" CACHE STRING "suffix for 32/64 inst dir placement")
 #endif()
 mark_as_advanced(LIB_POSTFIX)

Configure, build, and install

 cmake -Wdev ^
     -G "Visual Studio 10 2010 Win64" ^
     -D BUILD_METIS:BOOL=NO ^
     -D SUITESPARSE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="%GridPACKDir%" ^
     -D SUITESPARSE_USE_CUSTOM_BLAS_LAPACK_LIBS:BOOL=ON ^
     -D SUITESPARSE_CUSTOM_BLAS_LIB:PATH=%prefix%\lib\blas.lib ^
     -D SUITESPARSE_CUSTOM_LAPACK_LIB:PATH=%prefix%\lib\lapack.lib ^
     -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="%GridPACKDir" ^
     ..
 cmake --build . --config Release
 cmake --build . --target install --config Release

ParMETIS

Get the official distribution from here.
The source distribution needs to modified to

Have CMake look for MPI in the correct way
Edit metis.h so that REALTYPEWIDTH is 64.
Make sure metis.h is installed

Here is the patch:

 diff -r -u parmetis-4.0.3/CMakeLists.txt parmetis-4.0.3.fixed/CMakeLists.txt
 --- parmetis-4.0.3/CMakeLists.txt	2013-03-30 09:24:50.000000000 -0700
 +++ parmetis-4.0.3.fixed/CMakeLists.txt	2016-06-30 11:32:38.691121400 -0700
 @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  #   message(FATAL_ERROR "mpi is not found")
  # endif()
  # set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} ${MPI_COMPILE_FLAGS}")
 +find_package(MPI REQUIRED)

  # Prepare libraries.
  if(SHARED)
 @@ -33,6 +34,7 @@
  include_directories(${METIS_PATH}/include)

  # List of directories that cmake will look for CMakeLists.txt
 +add_subdirectory(${METIS_PATH}/include)
  add_subdirectory(${METIS_PATH}/libmetis ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/libmetis)
  add_subdirectory(include)
  add_subdirectory(libparmetis)
 Only in parmetis-4.0.3.fixed/: CMakeLists.txt~
 diff -r -u parmetis-4.0.3/metis/include/metis.h parmetis-4.0.3.fixed/metis/include/metis.h
 --- parmetis-4.0.3/metis/include/metis.h	2013-03-30 09:24:50.000000000 -0700
 +++ parmetis-4.0.3.fixed/metis/include/metis.h	2016-06-30 11:08:21.791160800 -0700
 @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     32 : single precission floating point (float)
     64 : double precission floating point (double)
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 -#define REALTYPEWIDTH 32
 +#define REALTYPEWIDTH 64

Building on Windows

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