Install LAPACK package for Compaq Compiler on Win XP

[luftikus]

Hi

I'm using the Compaq Visual Fortran 6 Compiler, and I want to use some subroutines out of the LAPACK package. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to install it. All the installation descriptions I found were else for UNIX else for Fortran 77 or for another compiler. I tried a little bit but I need help.

How to install the package using Win XP and the Compaq Compiler ??

Thanks in advance

Luftikus

[John4]

Basically you have a lot of options (but none at all):

You can download the source code from "http://www.netlib.org/lapack95/" and do the compilation yourself... But you will probably get some unresolved symbols.

You can get a precompiled version for WinNT at CERNLib (http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/cernlib/), but I think there might be some issues regarding the fact that it's a static library (compiled using DVF).

You can download the precompiled dll from "http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xsvobod2/misc/lapack/"... But I don't know if there are conflicts between the linkers (CVF uses v6.xx and IVF uses a newer version).

If you have a MATLAB license and are willing to spend some time trying to understand the "mex" mechanism, that's an option.

When you give up at the options above... Try vni.com and see if they still have imsl licenses for that compiler (or switch to an operative system that doesn't charge you by the hour).


John.

[TimP]

Intel MKL still supports CVF, and would be a more satisfactory solution than IMSL, if you want only LAPACK and other capabilities supported by MKL.