preparing lapack dll with mingw - windows

I downloaded lapack 3.3.0 version and mingw (with all libraries) after that I succeded to make blas.dll by gfortran --shared -o blas.dll blas\src\*.f -O
I could not succeeded to make lapack.dll by gfortran --shared -o lapack.dll src\*.f blas.dll -O
I got the following error
gfortran: error: CreateProccess: No such file or directory
Note: I set path to mingw/bin and also copied dlamch.f and slamch.f from install directory to src directory.
:: instructions got from this site
http://www.codingday.com/compile-lapack-and-blas-as-dll-on-windows/
What should I do

I donwloaded lapack and can reproduce the error.
As is indicated in the comments on the page you referred to, you might be running into a problem with the command line being too long for the shell to handle. Try first compiling all source files, and then linking them, in two separate steps.
gfortran -c src/*.f -O
gfortran -shared -o lapack.dll *.o blas.dll
When I did this the CreateProcess error went away, but unfortunately some undefined reference errors popped up next. It appears there are references to a couple of blas functions which aren't included in the blas sources accompanying lapack (I think they might be C functions).

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Building shared libraries for Ada

I'm having some trouble building shared libraries from Ada packages without using GPR's.
I have a package, Numerics, in files "numerics.ads" and "numerics.adb". They have no dependencies. There is a small build script which does:
gnatmake -Os numerics.ad[bs] -cargs -fPIC
gcc -shared numerics.o -o libnumerics.so -Wl,-soname,libnumerics.so
The .so and .ali files are installed at /usr/lib, and the .ads file is installed at /usr/include.
gnatls -v outputs the following relevant parts:
Source Search Path:
<Current_Directory>
/usr/include
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.1.0/adainclude
Object Search Path:
<Current_Directory>
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.1.0/adalib
So GNAT should have no problem finding the files.
Then, trying to compile a package that depends on Numerics:
gnatmake -O2 mathematics.ad[bs] -cargs -fPIC
outputs:
gcc -c -fPIC mathematics.adb
gcc -c -I./ -fPIC -I- /usr/include/numerics.ads
cannot generate code for file numerics.ads (package spec)
gnatmake: "/usr/include/numerics.ads" compilation error
This error has me thinking GNAT doesn't recognize the shared library, and is trying to rebuild Numerics.
I'd like to be building shared libraries, and only supply the spec for reference/documentation purposes.
edit:
So, it looks like gprbuild does two things I'm not doing. The first, is also passing -lnumerics to the compiler. The second, which shouldn't matter since libnumerics.so is in a standard directory anyways, is -L«ProjectDirectory». GPRbuild is obviously not doing desired behavior either, even though it's building the dependent project. It should be using the installed library /usr/lib/libnumerics.so, but instead is using «path»/Numerics/build/libnumerics.so. Furthermore, after building Numerics with GPRbuild, and then renaming the body to make it as if the body didn't exist (like with the installed files), when building Mathematics with GPRbuild, it complains about the exact same problem. It's as if the libraries aren't even shared, and GPRBuild is just making them look that way (except readelf reports the correct dependencies inside the libraries).
Adding -lnumerics to the build script accomplishes nothing; the build error is exactly the same. I'm completely lost at this point.
edit:
Following the link from Simon, the buildscript has changed to:
gnatmake -O2 mathematics.ad[bs] \
-aI/usr/include \
-aO/usr/lib \
-cargs -fPIC \
-largs -lnumerics
The error is essentially the same:
gcc -c -O2 -I/usr/include/ -fPIC mathematics.adb
gcc -c -I./ -O2 -I/usr/include/ -fPIC -I- /usr/include/numerics.ads
cannot generate code for file numerics.ads (package spec)
gnatmake: "/usr/include/numerics.ads" compilation error
I thought to check libnumerics.so is actually a correct shared library. ldd reports:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd944c1000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f50d3927000)
/usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f50d3ed4000)
So I'm thinking yes, the library is fine, and gnatmake still isn't recognizing it.
In general, you need to install the body of the packages as well (numerics.adb in your case). Also, I suspect you want to set the ALI files
(numerics.ali) as read-only, so that gnatmake does not try to recompile them.

Can't make FestVox compile due to missing -leststring and missing libeststring.a

So I have installed / compiled speech_tools, and Festival (2.3) using Cygwin on my Win8.1 machine to the point that I can successfully produce speech using this command:
echo "hello world" | \src\main\festival --tts
The next step is for me to get FestVox running. I have downloaded FestVox 2.6 and I have run ./configure; however, the 'make' step is giving me trouble, producing this error:
gcc -O3 -Wall -o phonealign phonealign_main.o -LC:/cygwin64/Festival/build
/speech_tools/lib -lestools -lestbase -leststring -lncurses -lstdc++ -lm -lwinmm -luser32
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -leststring
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:80: recipe for target 'phonealign' failed
So, I looked at my Makefile at where it might be trying to look for this file, and it looks like in that directory (build\speech_tools\lib) I am missing a libeststring.a partner for my libeststring.lib. Both libestbase and libestools have .lib and .a files in that directory.
At what step did I go wrong?? Should a libeststring.a have been created at some point??? When? How can I fix this?
I think the problem is that you should use compiler in Windows instead of gcc within Cygwin. The role in Cygwin for building Festival is to run configure to generate a Makefile for VC. Then run nmake in Windows command line not make within Cygwin.
Cygwin cannot build a native Windows application like what MINGW does. Application build in Cygwin can only run within Cygwin.
*.a is the static library for Linux, which is built by gcc. *.lib is the static library for Windows, which is built by VC.
So I suggest you taking a look at README, INSTALL files in FestVox. To find whether there is description for make a Makefile for Windows like process "3. Make makefile for VC in Cygwin" in my document (http://www.eguidedog.net/doc_build_win_festival.php)
Cameron

mingw32-make tries to create subfolder .lib an illegal name

I am trying to compile a project that required freetype library so I was figuring out how to install freetype to mingw32 and the more safer way is to compile it.
Anyway the problem was compiling freetype-2.4.11
I went into bash provided in msys
I did ./configure within freetype's main dir and everything looks fine
next I did mingw32-make which created the problem
libtool: compile: gcc -pedantic -ansi -Ig:/Downloads/freetype-2.4.11/objs -I./b
uilds/unix -Ig:/Downloads/freetype-2.4.11/include -c -Wall -g -O2 "-DFT_CONFIG_C
ONFIG_H=<ftconfig.h>" -DFT2_BUILD_LIBRARY "-DFT_CONFIG_MODULES_H=<ftmodule.h>" g
:/Downloads/freetype-2.4.11/src/base/ftsystem.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o g:/Downlo
ads/freetype-2.4.11/objs/.libs/ftsystem.o
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create g:/Downloads/freetype-2.4.11/objs/.libs/ftsystem.o: No
such file or directory
g:/Downloads/freetype-2.4.11/builds/freetype.mk:198: recipe for target 'g:/Downl
oads/freetype-2.4.11/objs/ftsystem.lo' failed
mingw32-make[4]: *** [g:/Downloads/freetype-2.4.11/objs/ftsystem.lo] Error 1
g:/Downloads/freetype-2.4.11/objs/.libs/ftsystem.o seemed like it is trying to use a directory that is illegal in windows.
Thanks in advance
Try to use make instead (i.e. the one from MSYS distribution), and avoid using mingw32-make (from MinGW distribution) in the future to save yourself time and nerves. Extract from MinGW Wiki:
What's the difference between make and mingw32-make?
The "native" (i.e.: MSVCRT dependent) port of make is lacking in some functionality and has modified functionality due to the lack of POSIX on Win32. There also exists a version of make in the MSYS distribution that is dependent on the MSYS runtime. This port operates more as make was intended to operate and gives less headaches during execution. Based on this, the MinGW developers/maintainers/packagers decided it would be best to rename the native version so that both the "native" version and the MSYS version could be present at the same time without file name collision.

fortran link error

I have a problem with compiling a fortran program with the gfortan complier.
The main program is located in main.f. So, I write in console:
gfortran D:\test\test.f
But it displays me a lot of errors such as:
C:\Users\Efds~1\AppData\Local\Temp\cchFNGgc.o:test.f:<.test+0x3a>: undefined reference to '_gridw_'
C:\Users\Efds~1\AppData\Local\Temp\cchFNGgc.o:test.f:<.test+0x3a>: undefined reference to '_gridz_'
etc.
I think it's because of functions gridw, gridz etc. are located in other *.f files. But I don't know how to link these all together.
Also, I tried to use Compaq Visual Fortran Complier, but it didn't help me.
A basic command for compiling and linking multiple source files into one executable would be
gfortran -o executable source1.f source2.f source3.f
taking care that any .f file you specify is named to the right of any other source files on which it depends. All of this, and much more besides, is well covered in the compiler's documentation.
As noted above, you can compile several files with the same command, but it's quite unusual.
You may prefer first compile to object files (".o") :
gfortran -c gridw.f
gfortran -c gridz.f
And then compile the program
gfortran test.f grodw.o gridz.o
If you have many files to link, it may be interesting to build a library:
ar cru mylib.a gridw.o gridz.o
gfortran test.f mylib.a
If you name your library libSOMETHING.a, you can simply write
gfortran test.f -lSOMETHING

shared library locations for matlab mex files:

I am trying to write a matlab mex function which uses libhdf5; My Linux install provides libhdf5-1.8 shared libraries and headers. However, my version of Matlab, r2007b, provides a libhdf5.so from the 1.6 release. (Matlab .mat files bootstrap hdf5, evidently). When I compile the mex, it segfaults in Matlab. If I downgrade my version of libhdf5 to 1.6 (not a long-term option), the code compiles and runs fine.
question: how do I solve this problem? how do I tell the mex compilation process to link against /usr/lib64/libhdf5.so.6 instead of /opt/matlab/bin/glnxa64/libhdf5.so.0 ? When I try to do this using -Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/lib64 in my compilation, I get errors like:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libhdf5.so.0, needed by /opt/matlab/matlab75/bin/glnxa64/libmat.so, may conflict with libhdf5.so.6
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
mex: link of 'hdf5_read_strings.mexa64' failed.
make: *** [hdf5_read_strings.mexa64] Error 1
ack. the last resort would be to download a local copy of the hdf5-1.6.5 headers and be done with it, but this is not future proof (a Matlab version upgrade is in my future.). any ideas?
EDIT: per Ramashalanka's excellent suggestions, I
A) called mex -v to get the 3 gcc commands; the last is the linker command;
B) called that linker command with a -v to get the collect command;
C) called that collect2 -v -t and the rest of the flags.
The relevant parts of my output:
/usr/bin/ld: mode elf_x86_64
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../lib64/crti.o
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/crtbeginS.o
hdf5_read_strings.o
mexversion.o
-lmx (/opt/matlab/matlab75/bin/glnxa64/libmx.so)
-lmex (/opt/matlab/matlab75/bin/glnxa64/libmex.so)
-lhdf5 (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../lib64/libhdf5.so)
/lib64/libz.so
-lm (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../lib64/libm.so)
-lstdc++ (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libstdc++.so)
-lgcc_s (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so)
/lib64/libpthread.so.0
/lib64/libc.so.6
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
-lgcc_s (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so)
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/crtendS.o
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../lib64/crtn.o
So, in fact the libhdf5.so from /usr/lib64 is being referenced. However, this is being overriden, I believe, by the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which my version of Matlab automagically sets at run-time so it can locate its own versions of e.g. libmex.so, etc.
I am thinking that the crt_file.c example works either b/c it does not use the functions I am using (H5DOpen, which had a signature change in the move from 1.6 to 1.8 (yes, I am using -DH5_USE_16_API)), or, less likely, b/c it does not hit the parts of Matlab internals that need hdf5. ack.
The following worked on my system:
Install hdf5 version 1.8.4 (you've already done this: I installed the source and compiled to ensure it is compatible with my system, that I get gcc versions and that I get the static libraries - e.g. the binaries offered for my system are icc specific).
Make a target file. You already have your own file. I used the simple h5_crtfile.c from here (a good idea to start with this simple file first a look for warnings). I changed main to mexFunction with the usual args and included mex.h.
Specify the static 1.8.4 library you want to load explicitly (the full path with no -L for it necessary) and don't include -lhdf5 in the LDFLAGS. Include a -t option so you can ensure that there is no dynamic hdf5 library being loaded. You also need -lz, with zlib installed. For darwin we also need a -bundle in LDFLAGS:
mex CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/hdf5/include' LDFLAGS='-t /usr/local/hdf5/lib/libhdf5.a -lz -bundle' h5_crtfile.c -v
For linux, you need an equivalent position-independent call, e.g. fPIC and maybe -shared, but I don't have a linux system with a matlab license, so I can't check:
mex CFLAGS='-fPIC -I/usr/local/hdf5/include' LDFLAGS='-t /usr/local/hdf5/lib/libhdf5.a -lz -shared' h5_crtfile.c -v
Run the h5_crtfile mex file. This runs without problems on my machine. It just does a H5Fcreate and H5Fclose to create "file.h5" in the current directory, and when I call file file.h5 I get file.h5: Hierarchical Data Format (version 5) data.
Note that if I include a -lhdf5 above in step 3, then matlab aborts when I try to run the executable (because it then uses matlab's dynamic libraries which for me are version 1.6.5), so this is definitely solving the problem on my system.
Thanks for the question. My solution above is definitely much easier for me than what I was doing before. Hopefully the above works for you.
I am accepting Ramashalanka's answer because it led me to the exact solution which I will post here for completeness only:
download the hdf5-1.6.5 library from the hdf5 website, and install the header files in a local directory;
tell mex to look for "hdf5.h" in this local directory, rather than in the standard location (e.g. /usr/include.)
tell mex to compile my code and the shared object library provided by matlab, and do not use the -ldfh5 flag in LDFLAGS.
the command I used is, essentially:
/opt/matlab/matlab_default/bin/mex -v CC#gcc CXX#g++ CFLAGS#"-Wall -O3 -fPIC -I./hdf5_1.6.5/src -I/usr/include -I/opt/matlab/matlab_default/extern/include" CXXFLAGS#"-Wall -O3 -fPIC -I./hdf5_1.6.5/src -I/usr/include -I/opt/matlab/matlab_default/extern/include " -O -lmwblas -largeArrayDims -L/usr/lib64 hdf5_read_strings.c /opt/matlab/matlab_default/bin/glnxa64/libhdf5.so.0
this gets translated by mex into the commands:
gcc -c -I/opt/matlab/matlab75/extern/include -DMATLAB_MEX_FILE -Wall -O3 -fPIC -I./hdf5_1.6.5/src -I/usr/include -I/opt/matlab/matlab_default/extern/include -O -DNDEBUG hdf5_read_strings.c
gcc -c -I/opt/matlab/matlab75/extern/include -DMATLAB_MEX_FILE -Wall -O3 -fPIC -I./hdf5_1.6.5/src -I/usr/include -I/opt/matlab/matlab_default/extern/include -O -DNDEBUG /opt/matlab/matlab75/extern/src/mexversion.c
gcc -O -pthread -shared -Wl,--version-script,/opt/matlab/matlab75/extern/lib/glnxa64/mexFunction.map -Wl,--no-undefined -o hdf5_read_strings.mexa64 hdf5_read_strings.o mexversion.o -lmwblas -L/usr/lib64 /opt/matlab/matlab_default/bin/glnxa64/libhdf5.so.0 -Wl,-rpath-link,/opt/matlab/matlab_default/bin/glnxa64 -L/opt/matlab/matlab_default/bin/glnxa64 -lmx -lmex -lmat -lm -lstdc++
this solution should work on all my various target machines and at least until I upgrade to matlab r2009a, which I believe uses hdf5-1.8. thanks for all the help, sorry for being so dense with this--I think I was overly-committed to using the packaged version of hdf5, rather than a local set of header files.
Note this would all have been trivial if Mathworks had provided a set of the header files with the Matlab distribution...

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