The libary could be the "wrong" because there are better ones on the system or
in order to evalute so performece details I ( and other members of the project
) want to switch the version easily. So its the best way, I think , to do this
by changing the command line options and not to search in the cmake cache and
change the values there. An other problem is that the FindBlas tooks an
implementation that cause segfaults with my lib ( for example if the matlab
blas is chosen)
regards,
martin
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gesendet: 21.10.08 10:34:16
An: "Martin Köhler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: CMake <cmake@cmake.org>
Betreff: Re: [CMake] Add external static libraries / ar-archives to a build.
[keep the mail on cmake ml, pls]
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Martin Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Von: "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Gesendet: 21.10.08 10:10:44
>>An: "Martin Köhler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>CC: cmake@cmake.org
>>Betreff: Re: [CMake] Add external static libraries / ar-archives to a build.
>>
>>On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Martin Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm working on a library to solve sparse linear systems. All basic vector
>>> operations are realized by using the BLAS. The FindBLAS works fine but most
>>> of the blas implementations are provided as an ar-archive somewhere in the
>>> filesystem ( we use a standard blas, ATLAS, GotoBlas or malefactor specific
>>> variants). Is it possible to pass the wanted libblas.a as a parameter to
>>> cmake and add it to a target?
>>> For example when I want to use the GotoBLAS I want to call cmake this way:
>>> cmake -DBLAS=/path/to/lib/libgoto.a PATH_TO_SOURCE
>>>
>>> If I link the lib manually I enter
>>> gcc -o output myfile.c /path/to/lib/libgoto.a
>>
>>FIND_PACKAGE(BLAS REQUIRED)
>>
>>ADD_EXECUTABLE(output myfile.c)
>>TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(output ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
>>
>
> This way already works fine(I already noticed) but it is not that flexible I
> need for the project. I need to specify the ar-archive that contain the blas
> routines myself. The Find_package macro mostly finds the wrong blas that I
> don't want to use.
I do not understand what you mean. there is no 'wrong' library, cmake
just pick the first one based on your environment. If you have
multiple installation of blas, I do not see how cmake could guess
which one you want.
> In my opinion the best way is to pass the right file as parameter. The cause
> is that the choose of the blas implementation is very important to solve the
> problems as fast as possible and so I want an easy way to switch which blas
> is used.
Either run it via ccmake and changed whatever option is "wrong".
reading the code of FindBLAS.cmake there is apparently a subtle
mechanism which rely on the setting of "BLA_VENDOR", change this value
until you are happy with cmake system inspection (neither did I wrote
this module, nor did I ever used it...)
2cts
--
Mathieu
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