VisualStudio2005 and mkl_c.lib

[Intel_C_Intel]

Hello.

we link mkl_c.lib with Visual Studio 7 without any problem.

Visual Studio 2005 was installed and we tried to rebuild our solution under VS2005.

Next error message was shown:

Error19fatal error LNK1314: corrupt or invalid COFF symbol table (undefined static or label symbol)mkl_c.lib

How to fix the problem?

Igor

[Andrey_G_Intel2]

Your situation looks strange because we are tested compatibility of MKL with MS Visual Studio 2005 (beta2 and release). Can you send to us:
1) small test case which illustrating problem
2) version of used C compiler
3) version of MKL

[hona]

Hi,
I have the same problem. Can anyone give a hint?
On my pc mkl 5.2 is installed and I tried to compile my old programm with VS 2005 8.0.50727.42. It is exactly the same error.

Shall I get the new update?

Thanks for any helps

[pavanbp]

Hi,
Possible explanation:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173728.aspx

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Visual C++ Concepts: Building a C/C++ Program

Linker Tools Error LNK1314

Error Message

corrupt or invalid COFF symbol table (undefined static or label symbol)

The compiler-generated content for a section in the given object appears to be corrupt.

This error may represent a failure of the compiler; contact Getting Help from Microsoft Product Support Services (Visual Studio).

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[Intel_C_Intel]

Hello,
I have the same problem.

mkl_p4.lib(xdgemm.obj) : fatal error LNK1314: corrupt or invalid COFF symbol table (undefined static or label symbol) mkl_c.lib

I questioned MS as ISV-AS for Empowered Customer support. But,their answers were "We were not able to confirm effective information. Please contact developer of this library."

>This error may represent a failure of the compiler; contact Getting Help from Microsoft Product Support Services (Visual Studio).

I think "' a failure of the compiler'the above-mentioned indicates causing in the compile time in the library(mkl_p4.lib(xdgemm.obj))".

[grant1]

By playing around with makefiles, I found it is possible tolink with mkl_c.lib fromold MKL, butit is messy.

I started with a makefile (.mak) and dependency file (.dep) that I exported from CVF and old Visual Studio. This makefile specifies VC98BinLINK.EXE as linker, which seems happy enough with mkl_c.lib. I changed F90 to specify IFORT.EXE. I changed LIB to make sure that the following were all there: old Visual Studio directoriesVC98Lib and DF98Lib,new intel directory ...9.1IA32Lib and my MKL5.2 library directory.

I changed F90_PROJ to suit ifort. To get a hint on how to do this, I upgraded my CVF project to Intel Fortran using the method described in the Intel help. Then I looked at the commandline settings for Fortran and Linker in the project's property pages. I also removed debug information from the project, but not 100% sure whether that was truly necessary - maybe it would've been OK just to clean various debug files from my directories?

If I have time one day, I would like tobe able towrap up this hack independently of my project,to produce anew non-corrupt library file instead, that can be linked to with no problems from within Visual Studio, but Idon't know yet whether it is possible.

Sorry this is sosketchy; I'm pretty new to fortran, makefiles, etc... but hopefully it might help somebody...

[Ying_H_Intel]

Add another workaround for your reference,

I just tried to build the BLAS example(MKL52exampleslas) and found that with mkl_c_dll.lib seem no such problem. So if you have to link thelibraries with MKL 5.2, may you try to link the dynamic library(mkl_c_dll.lib) instead of those static library (mkl_c.lib, mkl_px.lib etc) and see if it can solve your problem?

In addtion, MKL 5.2 is not officially supported any longer, soI recommend , if possbile, pleaseuse the "mkl_p4.lib, mkl_p3.lib, mkl_def.lib" in latest MKL version. (I'm pretty sure that there's no such an issue in late releases such MKL 9.0.).

Thanks

Ying