topic Error MSB4086 trying to use MKL libraries in Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library

Error MSB4086 trying to use MKL libraries

Noah_F_ — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:31:46 GMT

Windows 7, Visual Studio 2013 Professional, MKL 2017

I'm having an error when attempting to build a c++ project on newly installed MSVS 2013 using the MKL libraries. The error is MSB4086: A numeric comparison was attempted on "$(SuiteVer)" that evaluates to "[Intel Compiler is not installed]" instead of a number, in condition "$(SuiteVer) >= 17 OR $(MKLMNewArgFormat) == 1". It seems to be complaining about no Intel C++ compiler being installed. That's fine, I don't think I have it, and I don't think that I should need it to use the MKL libraries.

I've gone through the usual checks of making sure that the VS/MKL integration features installed correctly, everything there looks fine. And yes, I do have MKL enabled from the VS project settings.

I also know the code is good, I previously was able to compile on VS2012 and can still compile on our Linux cluster (which has the Intel compiler installed but I don't think I have that on my Windows machine), but I want to debug locally before compiling on and submitting jobs to the cluster.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

Dear Customer,

Zhen_Z_Intel — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 02:02:37 GMT

Dear Customer,

It is a known issue for compiler 17.0. We have fixed in 2017update1. You could download new version, or you could do following setting to avoid this problem in 2017:

Please edit file:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Platforms\Win32\PlatformToolsets\v140\ImportBefore\Intel.Libs.MKL.v140.targets"
The line:
<_MKLArgPlatform Condition="$(SuiteVer) >= 17 OR $(MKLMNewArgFormat) == 1">ia32</_MKLArgPlatform>
replace with the lines:
<_MKLArgPlatform Condition="'$(SuiteVer)' == '[Intel Compiler is not installed]' AND $(MKLMajorVersion) >= 17">ia32</_MKLArgPlatform>
<_MKLArgPlatform Condition="'$(SuiteVer)' != '[Intel Compiler is not installed]' AND ($(SuiteVer) >= 17 OR $(MKLMNewArgFormat) == 1)">ia32</_MKLArgPlatform>

Hope it would be useful to you.

Best regards,
Fiona

Yes, I can confirm that

Noah_F_ — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:10:26 GMT

Yes, I can confirm that applying the update fixed the issue. Many thanks Fiona for your prompt response.

Best, Noah.