Have any of our lovely and astute readers sucessfully gotten the ATLAS libraries to work on a G5 running Tiger?
(i.e., sucessfully linked the LAPACK libraries from the ATLAS distribution)
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August 5th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
Have you tried installing the fink package? At least on a G4 there was no problem….
August 5th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Risa-
Why bother with ATLAS? The Mac has the ‘veclib framework’ which has the whole of LAPACK and BLAS (and more) optimized for the hardware?
(you link with something like ‘-framework veclib’; not sure about the appropriate include files if you need them)
August 5th, 2005 at 11:47 pm
Since 10.3 the framework to link with has been the Accelerate umbrella framework:
cc -faltivec -framework Accelerate
For details, see:
man Accelerate
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/
August 6th, 2005 at 7:42 pm
Thanks! This was actually for a colleague, but apparently now everything is working fine. (The fink that worked on G4s doesn’t work, but the -framework veclib or -framework Accelerate worked fine.)