blas, lapack, fortran and FC5

[Atique]

Hi all,

I am new to Linux and Fortran programming. I have started my work using Intel ifort and the gfortran compiler. I have blas and lapack installed from extras repo.

I am unable to link BLAS LAPACK using:

ifort -I/usr/lib prog.f90 -L/usr/lib -lblas -llapack

The compile is fine without blas or lapack.

Can anyone help me?
Please tell me in detail how to?

Thanks

[InKo]

hi Atique,

1. I never used pre-installed blas and lapack libraries, ever included them into my code and compiled them with the code everytime... it is then easier to port the code onto an other platform.

2. I tested you case and I think your command is wrong. i tried a test program with

ifort -c test.f  -L/usr/lib/ -lblas

and it worked for me...

[InKo]

forgot something...
you can download the blas and lapack sources (and much more) at

http://www.netlib.org/blas/
http://www.netlib.org/lapack/

I might be a bit tricky to compile it for the first time but believe me it is simple and comfortable to use it as source if you need to use the code on different platforms or machines.
in my case, it is needed on windows, linux, alpha and nec-sx...

have a lot of fun!

[mwette]

try the following (as root)

# yum install lapack lapack-devel blas blas-devel

[Atique]

Thanks a lot,
ifort -c test.f -L/usr/lib/ -lblas
does not give the error "ld: cannot find -lblas"
however, now I get this error when using SGESV routine

truss2d.o: In function `MAIN__':truss2d.f90.text+0x597): undefined reference to `sgesv_'

Similar error messages appear when I use any of BLAS or LAPACK routines.

Kindly post some small program (say solution to linear equations A x = b ) using LAPACK, alongwith the compiler command.

Thanks

[mwette]

try "-llapack -lblas" instead of "-lblas"
And I don't think you need "-L/usr/lib/"

[Atique]

I dont get any error message when compiling ( -c option) only. It is when I link the libraries blas or lapack that I get the errors like:
truss2d.o: In function `MAIN__':truss2d.f90: (.text+0x597): undefined reference to `sgesv_'

What could I be doing wrong...?

[mwette]

Check the compiler for use of underscores. Some compilers will compile
fortran fuction "abc" to "abc_". For example, the gfortran compiler has the
options "-fno-underscoring" and "-funderscoring".

Well, now I take that back. The lapack on my machine has:

# nm liblapack.a | grep sgesv
dsgesv.o:
00000000 T dsgesv_
sgesvd.o:
00000000 T sgesvd_
sgesv.o:
00000000 T sgesv_
sgesvx.o:
00000000 T sgesvx_

Are you linking with "-llapack -lblas" ?