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Building a boost library for MIC

RKannan — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:38:23 GMT

Hello,

My C++ code uses boost program_options in main() to read command line options. Later in the code I want to offload some computations on MIC.

Using -offload-option,mic,compiler,"-zdefs", I figured the offload compiler was unable to find definitions for functions program_options. So I thought I could build a version of program_options for the MIC. I tried to pass the -mmic flag to the compiler using instructions here (I used cxxflag) and then referenced the built executable directly:

-offload-option,mic,compiler,"-zdefs /path/to/boost_1_55_0/stage/lib/libboost_program_options.a"

WHen I now build my code, I get

icpc: warning #10145: no action performed for file '/path/to/boost_1_55_0/stage/lib/libboost_program_options.a'

(same error even if I use -offoad-option,mic,ld instead of -offoad-option,mic,compiler.

Questions:

1. Am I on the right track here trying to build a library for MIC?

2. How do I get the offload compiler to link statically to the binary I build?

Thanks

We started pursuing an answer

TaylorIoTKidd — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 23:12:24 GMT

We started pursuing an answer to your question but it accidentally got dropped.

Is your question still relevant?

Regards
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Taylor

Dear Taylor,

RKannan — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:53:27 GMT

Dear Taylor,

Thanks for the response. For now I've rewritten parts of my code and eliminated boost usage but it will be good to get this sorted.

Thanks.

Tim (I assume it's Tim),

TaylorIoTKidd — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:53:41 GMT

Tim (I assume it's Tim),

Thanks for contributing to the community.

What version of MPSS did you use?

Regards
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Taylor

Also, instructions on

BelindaLiviero — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:02:34 GMT

Also, instructions on building boost were posted here, quite a long time ago - do these help?

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/building-the-boost-library-to-run-natively-on-intelr-xeon-phitm-coprocessor