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From: Altec (altecrtcw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-18 13:03:23


Toon Knapen wrote:

> altecrtcw wrote:
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>>I'd like to link to prebuilt .lib files located in different
>>directories where the directories are determined by: the compiler
>>version and runtime-link setting.
>>
>>For example, these are the 4 directories containing the prebuilt *.lib
>>files I'd like to use within various projects:
>>
>>z:\src\lib\vc6\mtstatic - static .lib files for vc6 (prebuilt)
>>z:\src\lib\vc6\mtshared - shared .lib files for vc6 (prebuilt)
>>z:\src\lib\vc71\mtstatic - static .lib files for vc7 (prebuilt)
>>z:\src\lib\vc71\mtshared - shared .lib files for vc7 (prebuilt)
>>
>>What is the correct syntax within my Jamfile at the project root to
>>make this work? I tried to get this to work in "project :
>>requirements" but have had no success.
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> I have tried to do it in the project target too but found no syntax to
> do it. There is another option however (and it is documented).
>
> To link with ATLAS (optimised BLAS libraries), I added to my
> user-config.jam following:
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> <quote from user-config.jam>
> import project ;
> project.initialize $(__name__) ;
> project user-config ;
> lib blaslib : : <name>atlas <search>/usr/local/lib ;
> </quote>
>
> In my Jamfile I now write
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> <quote from Jamfile>
> exe foo : bar.cpp /user-config//blaslib ;
> </quote>
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> This should work IF you only have one library per prebuilt lib. Let me
> explain: For linking with atlas, you actually need to link with three
> libraries in a specific order: libf77blas.a, lilbcblas.a and libatlas.a.
> Now with the above mechanism you can not associate multiple external
> libraries with one prebuilt-library (blaslib) AFAICT ;-( Or is there ?
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Thanks, the user-config and site-config files are pretty neat!

 


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