[petsc-users] missing libpetsc.a

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Sep 6 12:25:09 CDT 2012


Also first confirm 'make test' works for this build of petsc.

Satish

On Thu, 6 Sep 2012, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:29 AM, <0sabio00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I tried
> >
> > make PETSC_DIR=$PWD PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-debug getlinklibs
> >
> > and it printed out
> >
> > -Wl, -rpath, /PETSC_DIR/PETSC_ARCH/lib -L//PETSC_DIR/PETSC_ARCH/lib
> > -lpetsc -lpthread -Wl -rpath, /PETSC_DIR/PETSC_ARCH/lib -lflapack -lfblas
> > -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.5 -L/usr/lib/i486-linux-gru
> > -lmpichf90 -lgfortran -lm -lm -ldl -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lpthread
> > -lgcc_s -ldl
> >
> > I gor rid of all ',' and used the flag above and it had error with -Wl and
> > -rpath flags
> >
> 
> Why did you do that? These commas are meaningful. See the gcc manual.
> 
>     Matt
> 
> gcc: unrecognized option -rpath
> > cclplus: error : unrecognized command line option "-Wl"
> >
> > so i got rid of those two flags and compiled and I still get the same
> > error with DMGetMatrix not being declared.
> >
> > I checked the location of all the libraries listed above. (with find -name
> > lib'blahblah'.*) at "/"
> >
> > But There was no library for petsc "libpetsc.*" anywhere.
> >
> > Am I missing something??
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >> The routine is spelled DMCreateMatrix()
> >> On Sep 6, 2012 12:23 AM, <0sabio00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think i'm having a trouble linking to the petsc library.
> >>>
> >>> gcc  main.cpp  -I /path to /petsc-3.3-p3/include -I /path
> >>> to/petsc-3.3-p3/arch-linux2-c-debug/include
> >>> -L/path to /petsc-3.3-p3/arch-linux2-c-debug/lib/ -lpetsc-o test
> >>>
> >>> I get an error => DMGetMatrix not declared in this scope.
> >>>
> >>> and I realized that I can't find libpetsc.a or libpetsc.so anywhere.
> >>>  Where is the petsc library exactly? if I find the location of the petsc
> >>> library and link it would it fix the problem?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>
> >
> 
> 
> 



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