[Haskell-cafe] hmatrix, Windows and GCC

[Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto]

Well, I guess I am not the only one!

This blog show exactly what I am looking for!

http://quantile95.com/2008/10/31/ann-blas-bindings-for-haskell-version-06/



On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:21, Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto <
RafaelGCPP.Linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was planning to recompile everything (ATLAS, LAPACK and GHC included)
> this weekend, so I can have a similar environment on Windows and Linux...
> Having to "borrow" libraries
>
> Since I am married, this means it will actually happen on some weekend till
> 2010.
>
>
> What I really would like to try is a (purely?) functional approach to
> create a (P)LU decomposition of a matrix. I am not too much worried (at
> first) with performance or memory constraints, since I only want to see how
> beautiful it gets (or not!).  (This one might happen somewhere in this
> century...)
>
>
> Thanks anyway
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:57, allan <a.d.clark at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> The INSTALL file in the hmatrix repository has some very clear
>> instructions for installation on Windows.
>> http://perception.inf.um.es/~aruiz/darcs/hmatrix/INSTALL<http://perception.inf.um.es/%7Earuiz/darcs/hmatrix/INSTALL>
>>
>> However note this section at the bottom:
>> "Unfortunately the lapack dll supplied by the R system does not include
>> zgels_, zgelss_, and zgees_, so the functions depending on them
>> (linearSolveLS, linearSolveSVD, and schur for complex data)
>> will produce a "non supported in this OS" runtime error."
>>
>> Of course linearSolve is exactly what you will be wanting so this won't
>> work for you.
>> I ran into exactly this problem myself. I actually didn't get as far as a
>> run-time error as I got a linker error.
>>
>> I don't have any solution for you though, sorry.
>>
>> regards
>> allan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am writing a program that uses hmatrix for solving some linear systems.
>>> The hmatrix package depends on BLAS, which, in turn, depend on GCC 4.2 to be
>>> built (at least ATLAS does).
>>>
>>> GHC 6.10 for Windows is pre-packaged with GCC 3.4.5, and it leaves me
>>> with the impression that I would have incompatible ABIs.
>>>
>>> My questions:
>>>
>>> 1) Why GHC 6.10 still uses GCC 3.4.5 in Windows? I know mingw considers
>>> GCC 4.2 to be alpha, but, lets face it, 4.2 is almost obsolete!
>>> 2) Is it possible to rebuild GHC 6.10, using Windows and GCC 4.2? Is
>>> there any guide for doing this?
>>> 3) Has any of you tried hmatrix on Windows? How did you do it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rafael
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
>>> Electronic Engineer, MSc.
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
> Electronic Engineer, MSc.
>



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Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
Electronic Engineer, MSc.
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