Re: [Boost-users] user-config.jam settings for building boost::MPI on windows Intel? (and potential bug in 1.36)

From: Jesse Perla (jesseperla_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-16 13:04:38

* Here was my user-config.jam to install with MPICH2, windows Intel:using
intel-win ;
using mpi : : <find-shared-library>cxx
              <find-shared-library>mpi
              <library-path>C:/apps/MPICH2/lib ;

* Considering that MPICH2 is a common library, perhaps it is worth the
automatic mpi search on windows to look for it instead of just windows
compute cluster.  Sadly, I don't know enough about jam to write it myself.

Now for a potential build issue:
* After running: *bjam release debug --with-mpi *I then copied the
libs/dll's into a lib folder in my Lib path for the compiler.
* The build created a file called: libboost_mpi-iw-mt-gd-1_36.lib
* And it created a file called: boost_serialization-iw-mt-gd-1_36.lib
* However, when I tried to build using Intel C++ (and I didn't add the libs
directly into the link inputs, the boost::mpi figured it out itself), it
found the MPI library file, but tried to automatically look for a library
called: libboost_serialization-iw-mt-gd-1_36.lib instead of the one created.
* I renamed the serialization library to have "lib" in front, and everything
compiled/ran fine.

*
*

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jesse Perla <jesseperla_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I am trying to build the boost::mpi (1.36) on:
> 1) Windows vista
> 2) Visual Studio 2008
> 3) Intel C++ 10.1 (though could switch to the built in Microsoft compiler
> here if it would help)
> 4) With the open source MPICH2 libraries installed.
>
> I can link, compile, and test properly according to the beginning of the
> MPI
> intstructions (
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/mpi/getting_started.html)
>
> Now, I added "using intel ; " and "using mpi ; " to my user-config.jam, but
>
> I guess it can't autodetect since it spits out:
>
> C:\apps\boost\boost_1_36_0>bjam --with-mpi
> > The system cannot find the path specified.
> > The system cannot find the path specified.
> > The system cannot find the path specified.
> > MPI auto-detection failed: unknown wrapper compiler mpic++
> >
> >
>
> Does anyone know the set of config settings that would work for the setup I
> described? When I tried to get debugging info out of the build, it said something
> about trying to detect windows cluster server, which I am not  using
> (instead, MPICH2 as above).
>
> I guess part of the question is whether Intel C++ needs a "wrapper
> compiler" as discussed later in the getting started.  Since I was able to
> compile and run the (non boost) MPI code, it doesn't seem so to me.
> (or are there binaries for the MPI libraries? I had trouble finding them...)
>
>
>   Thanks,
>   Jesse
>