BTW I did try Tony's idea of adding "lib" as prefix to each .lib filename. That didn't solve the problem.
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 2:07:14 PM UTC-5, Zhong Pan wrote: > > Just to report my progress and ask for help again if anybody succeeded in > building Julia 0.4 or 0.5 on Windows with MKL. > > I backed off a little and tried building release-0.5 on Windows following > the standard instructions below. That is, without any MKL related > configurations. > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/README.windows.md > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FJuliaLang%2Fjulia%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2FREADME.windows.md&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGelGTs4ABXwmqAlT9JV6MYK90O4g> > But the build failed with Error 2 (some dependency failed to build). > > Since my main focus is to get MKL to work rather than trying out 0.5, I > tried building release-0.4 first following the same instructions (no MKL). > And that was a success! > Encouraged, I added the following lines to Make.user and copied the 17 > .lib files from the MKL library to julia/usr/bin and julia/usr/lib and > C:\mkllib > USE_INTEL_MKL = 1 > USE_INTEL_MKL_FFT = 1 > USE_INTEL_LIBM = 1 > > I also did this, though I know it probably won't matter: > export MKLLIB=/c/mkllib > > "make -j 4" failed with the expected error: > > ... > configure: error: Cannot find BLAS libraries > ... > make: *** [Makefile:51: julia-deps] Error 2 > > I know CMake probably won't be able to figure out Windows style libraries > by itself, but I don't know how to make this work. Could anyone help? > > P.S. the 17 MKL .lib files are listed below: > > mkl_blas95_ilp64.lib > mkl_blas95_lp64.lib > mkl_core.lib > mkl_core_dll.lib > mkl_intel_ilp64.lib > mkl_intel_ilp64_dll.lib > mkl_intel_lp64.lib > mkl_intel_lp64_dll.lib > mkl_intel_thread.lib > mkl_intel_thread_dll.lib > mkl_lapack95_ilp64.lib > mkl_lapack95_lp64.lib > mkl_rt.lib > mkl_sequential.lib > mkl_sequential_dll.lib > mkl_tbb_thread.lib > mkl_tbb_thread_dll.lib > > > > > >
