# Is PETSc.jl alive? Any plans for Windows?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-petsc-jl-alive-any-plans-for-windows/5217
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-petsc-jl-alive-any-plans-for-windows/5217 "2017-08-04T06:24:11Z")
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### Author:  [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-petsc-jl-alive-any-plans-for-windows/5217/1 "2017-08-04T06:24:11Z")
I wonder what does the Julia community use for solving large sparse linear systems of equations on distributed GPUs? PETSc.jl seems like an obvious option but I tried it in Windows and it is not building. So either no one has really needed that use case before (in Windows) or that there is an alternative that I am missing on here. Any suggestion is welcome.
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-petsc-jl-alive-any-plans-for-windows/5217/2 "2017-08-04T10:54:27Z")
Windows support for PETSc.jl requires someone to put together precompiled binaries of the library for Windows, and I don’t think anyone has gotten around to that yet. (None of the PETSc.jl developers are Windows users.)
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### Author:  [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-petsc-jl-alive-any-plans-for-windows/5217/3 "2017-08-04T19:01:40Z")
I see thanks.