Which configure file was this from? Julia doesn't need the .lib files, it needs the dll, and I assure you there are dlls in MKL. However some of the dependencies may need the .lib files, and/or you can try copying them to a .dll.a file name if that helps libtool or configure work better.
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 12:28:16 PM UTC-7, Zhong Pan wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >>
