Building a boost library for MIC

[RKannan]

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

[TaylorIoTKidd]

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

Is your question still relevant?

Regards
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Taylor
 

[RKannan]

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.

[TaylorIoTKidd]

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
 

[BelindaLiviero]

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