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Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

gregor_seitlinger — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:01:30 GMT

hi everyone!

i'm trying to build a small programm to evaluate the performance of the BLAS function GEMV on a multi core system, but when i try to build the program i get the following errors:

Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SGEMV_F95 referenced in function _MAIN__ Parallel_test.obj

My link line looks like this:

/OUT:"Debug\\Parallel_test.exe" /INCREMENTAL:NO /NOLOGO /LIBPATH:"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\ComposerXE-2011\\mkl\\lib\\intel64" /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:"C:\\Users\\Maria Mair\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2010\\Projects\\Parallel_test\\Parallel_test\\Debug\\Parallel_test.exe.intermediate.manifest" /MANIFESTUAC:"level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'" /DEBUG /PDB:"C:\\Users\\Maria Mair\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2010\\Projects\\Parallel_test\\Parallel_test\\Debug\\Parallel_test.pdb" /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /STACK:104858000 /IMPLIB:"C:\\Users\\Maria Mair\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2010\\Projects\\Parallel_test\\Parallel_test\\Debug\\Parallel_test.lib" mkl_intel_lp64.lib mkl_intel_thread.lib mkl_blas95_lp64.lib mkl_core.lib

I've included the libraries suggested by the link line advisor and if i change the libraries to the ones needed for a 32-bit system the program builds and runs without a problem but only a single core is used (BLAS level 2 functions are only multi-threaded for intel 64 bit systems?).

Any suggestions what i need to change or add?

Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

Gennady_F_Intel — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:46:02 GMT

Ok, could you please clarify, when you addmkl_blas95_lp64.lib, then all linking problems has dissapered, right?

Regarding using only one thread - all?gemv routines are threaded.

what is the size of matrix you are running?

Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

gregor_seitlinger — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:17:23 GMT

Unfortunately no. When i try to build with the libraries listed in my link list i get the mentioned errors. Only when i build the identical program for a 32-bit system do I not get any errors.

Regarding the multi-threading of BLAS level 2 functions - the IMKL documentation says:

-Level1 and Level2 BLAS functions:

-Level1 BLAS:*axpy, *copy, *swap, ddot/sdot, drot/srot

-Level2 BLAS:*gemv, *trmv, dsyr/ssyr, dsyr2/ssyr2, dsymv/ssymv

Note that these functions are threaded only for:

-Intel 64 architecture

-Intel Core2 Duo and Intel Core i7 processors

thats why I assumed that GEMV only using one processor when build with the ia32 libraries was normal.

The matrix i'm using is 1000x1000.

Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

Murat_G_Intel — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:20:02 GMT

Hi Gregor,

MKL SGEMV is multithreaded for IA32 architecturs too. For level-2 BLAS, 1000x1000 may not be large enough to see the benefits from parallelism. On my dual-core system, I do not see a speedup for a 1000x1000 matrix neither. However, if I increase my problem size (say 2000x2000), I start seeing the benefits from multi-threading.

Are you using the latest MKL?

Thanks,

Efe

Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

Murat_G_Intel — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:31:47 GMT

As a remark, GEMV is memory bound. You would especially see the benefits of multi-threading on multi-socket systems (again for large problems).

Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

gregor_seitlinger — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:38:15 GMT

Thanks for the quick replies.

Right now I'm not as much concerned with the performance increase I can get from the parallelism as with actually getting the program to build.

I think my problem migth have something to do with the libraries and modules needed for the BLAS routines. Last night I tryed to added the function mkl_set_num_threads() to force the use of all four cores of my sytem, which resulted in another error, so now I'm up to this:

Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SGEMV_F95 referenced in function _MAIN__ Parallel_test.obj

Error 2 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _mkl_serv_mkl_set_num_threads referenced in function _MKL_SET_NUM_THREADS mkl_intel_c.lib(_thrd_mkl_set_num_threads_f.obj)

Error 3 fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals Debug\Parallel_test.exe

My Linker input looks like this:

mkl_blas95_lp64.lib mkl_intel_lp64.lib mkl_intel_thread.lib mkl_core.lib libiomp5md.lib

I'm using Visual Fortran Compiler XE 12.0 Update 4 & Intel Math Kernel Library 10.3 Update 4

Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

Gennady_F_Intel — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:21:27 GMT

hmm, intersting. I checked on my side - all works fine. Please check would you able to build ..\mkl\examples\blas95 examples for intel64? see the examples of using into makefile.

Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

mecej4 — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:33:23 GMT

I see something amiss with the name decoration. With LP64 as the target, the name should be SGEMV_F95 (without a leading underscore). The decoration _SGEMV_F95 is appropriate for IA32 targets. Make sure that the compiler and linker options target the same model (IA32 or LP64).

A similar observation applies to other unsatisfied externals.

Unresolved external symbol when building for intel 64 system

gregor_seitlinger — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:12:57 GMT

Thank you for pointing this out to me! Compiler and linker were targeting different models.
Problem solved, program builds and runs.
Thank you again!!!