Slow compilation

[Stupak__Richard]

Hi all,

I have some mixed language DLL (c++ & fortran). I am using WIN7 with VS2015 and Intel fortran compiler 2016, when i try to compile it, it takes like 1 minute for one fortran file. When i compile it on WinXP VS6 and visual compaq fortran it takes like 1m for whole DLL.

When i am compiling other applications (pure c++) it goes fine.

Do you have any idea if there is some problem in settings of intel fortran compiler??

Thanks

Richard

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Are you using a floating license or a "named user" license? We sometimes see with floating licenses that the license checkout takes a long time if there are problems with the network. Do you see a slow compile even for a Debug configuration or a simple "Hello World" type application?

[Stupak__Richard]

Hi Steve,

I tried simple "Hello World" and it took like 10s to compile.

I got a serial number for my product, so i suppose its not floating license.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Indeed you have a named-user license. Strange. Please look in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Licenses folder - how many license files are there?

Do you see the same sort of delay if you compile Hello World from a command prompt?

[Stupak__Richard]

I have there 5 *.lic files. 

I tried ifort but I get this:

"Intel(R) Visual Fortran Intel(R) 64 Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 16.0.2.180 Build 20160204
Copyright (C) 1985-2016 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.

ifort: error #10037: could not find 'link'"

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Did you use the command prompt shortcut we provide in the Start menu under Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016? Did it seem to take a long time to get to the last line?

I suggest you go through the .lic files and delete those that are not current. I show you as having one Fortran license.

[Johannes_Rieke]

Hi Richard,

I had a similar problem with slow compilation time respectively some time lag before fortcom started. In my case I had two files in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Licenses' folder. Although I renamed the old license file, this old license file caused the error. It contained a link to an old floating license server (USE SERVER ...). If only one license is active, maybe you can delete the others from the folder. If you need all, there is a very simple way described in documentation to combine all these license files into only one. Maybe this helps...

Regarding to the command line, you opened the console from the subfolder 'Command Prompt with Intel Compiler' in the 'Intel Parallel Studio XE ...' in the start menu?

Good luck, Johannes

edit: Steve was some minutes faster...

[Stupak__Richard]

I deleted all licenses, just left the newest one ( i reinstaled parallel studio few days ago), but does not look like something changed.

I tried Start->All programs->Intel Paralell 2016..->Compiler and Performance lib->Command prompt with Intel.. -> All of them and got this:

Copyright (C) 1985-2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Intel(R) Compiler 16.0 Update 2 (package 180)

ERROR: Cannot determine the location of the VS Common Tools folder.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Richard, has your administrator restricted access to registry query tools? Can you run C:\Windows\regedit.exe ?

[Stupak__Richard]

Yeah, i can run regedit.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Which version and edition of Visual Studio do you have installed?

[Stupak__Richard]

VS 2015 professional 14.0.24720.00 Update 1

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Ok. What happens when you open Start > All Programs > Visual Studio 2015 > Visual Studio Tools > Developer Command Prompt ?

[Stupak__Richard]

The same like with fortran prompt.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

You get the message about can't locate common tools? That suggests that your Visual Studio install is mangled somehow. Try a "repair" on Visual Studio 2015 and then reinstall (or "repair") Intel Parallel Studio XE. You may want to install Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, but do this only if you don't use Intel C++ as VS2015 Update 2 broke that.

[Stupak__Richard]

I tried repair on VS and then reinstalled Intel Parallel studio. 

I instaled VS update 2, but i still get same error in command line and no change in compilation time.

[Stupak__Richard]

Ok i get rid of the Error from command line (Some problem with Path variable). But it takes too much time to compile only "hello world" app fortran file.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Ok. Now please do this in the command prompt session. First, make sure you are in a writable folder not under Program Files.  Then do:

set INTEL_LMD_DEBUG=log.txt
ifort -c hello.f90

Where "hello.f90" is the name of your source. Use "Send author a message" to send me a private message and attach the log.txt file it creates.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

This was resolved. Richard's system had a definition for LM_LICENSE_FILE that pointed to some other system on his local network. The license check looks at all available licenses and checking this server was slow or timed out. Removing that definition restored Fortran compile performance. (I've asked Richard to make sure that no other product on his system needed that license definition.)

[Song__James]

How do you remove the definition? 

[Song__James]

On Linux this is very straightforward to do, but hey, winDOS ...