Compilation errors when building python 2.7.8 with icc on Ubuntu 14.04

[Ashwin_D_]

Hello,

              As I did not receive a response to this question  - https://software.intel.com/en-us/comment/1798569#comment-1798569 I went ahead and compiled python on Linux using Intel ICC. Then I got these errors -

/home/aswin/buildPython/Python-2.7.8/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.c(56): error: identifier "__m128" is undefined
    UINT128 i128;
    ^

compilation aborted for /home/aswin/buildPython/Python-2.7.8/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.c (code 2)

I read a few workarounds for this error. But are there any updates. This is with the latest icc compiler.

Regards,

Ashwin.

[Om_S_Intel]

You need to include immintrin.h to get __m128 data types.

[Ashwin_D_]

Yes thanks. That worked. But I am not familiar with C include very much. The locate command gives me two immintrin.h files-one  icc and one gcc. How does the icc compiler pick the icc immintrin.h since I have not included the full path in the include statement ? Or this is a separate question ? :)