[petsc-users] How to interface with PETSc from another application?

[Klaus Burkart]

When I link the petsc library, the application side code is not properly compiled and the solver is not available for selection

--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
Unknown asymmetric matrix solver petGMRES

Valid asymmetric matrix solvers are :

4
(
GAMG
PBiCG
PBiCGStab
smoothSolver
)
I added the following to my makefile to link the petsc library

    -L$(PETSC_DIR)/arch-linux2-c-debug/lib    -lpetsc
 

    Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> schrieb am 18:45 Mittwoch, 4.Oktober 2017:
 

 Klaus Burkart <k_burkart at yahoo.com> writes:

> My setup:
>
> .bashrc
> export PETSC_DIR=/home/klaus/OpenFOAM/klaus-5.0/petsc-3.7.6
> export PETSC_ARCH=arch-linux2-c-debug
> export PETSC_CONFIGDIR=${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc
>
>
> make options
>     -I$(PETSC_CONFIGDIR)/conf \

The above should not be needed.

>     -I$(PETSC_DIR)/include \
>     -I$(PETSC_DIR)/arch-linux2-c-debug/include
>
> Installation and tests worked fine.
>
> The output using:     PetscInitialize(0,0,NULL,NULL); at the beginning and PetscFinalize(); at the end of the code section including PETSc (solver section) is:
>
> simpleFoam: symbol lookup error: /home/klaus/OpenFOAM/klaus-5.0/platforms/linux64GccDPInt32Opt/lib/libpetFoam.so: undefined symbol: PetscInitialize

How have you linked libpetFoam.so to libpetsc.so and did you use RPATH?
That seems to be the problem.

> No simulation is triggered
>
>
> When I just declare Mat M; and call a function with M as a parameter which outputs "Petsc - Hello" and sets the matrix M to symmetric (using: MatSetOption(A, MAT_SYMMETRIC, PETSC_TRUE);), the execution of a simulation is triggered but MatSetOption is causing a problem, I assume because PetscInitialize is missing
>
> Petsc - Hello nonepetGMRES:  Solving for Ux, Initial residual = 1, Final residual = 1, No Iterations 0
> Petsc - Hello nonepetGMRES:  Solving for Uz, Initial residual = 1, Final residual = 1, No Iterations 0
> simpleFoam: symbol lookup error: /home/klaus/OpenFOAM/klaus-5.0/platforms/linux64GccDPInt32Opt/lib/libpetFoam.so: undefined symbol: MatSetOption
>
> Maybe important to know, there's no way to enter commmand line input in the terminal while a simulation is running because the application displays continuously the intermediate simulation results. That's why I use PetscInitialize(0,0,NULL,NULL); There's now way to provide command line input.

That's fine.  You can use the PETSC_OPTIONS environment variable or a
configuration file to get run-time options to PETSc.

> I came back to this simple test after writing "the complete code" which showed these problems and stripped it down, step-by-step, to figure out what causes the problem i.e. everything but a declaration. 
>
>  
>
>    Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> schrieb am 17:17 Mittwoch, 4.Oktober 2017:
>  
>
>  Klaus Burkart <k_burkart at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> What's the concept to interface with PETSc from another application to solve a linear system with PETSc?
>>
>> The standard procedure of the job:
>>
>> 1: The application provides a matrix which needs to be converted and be loaded into PETSc
>>
>> 2: The application provides the rhs vector (containing pointers!) which needs to be loaded into PETSc 
>>
>> 3: The linear system is to be solved using PETSc
>>
>> 4: The application provides the result vector x, the PETSc result needs to be copied back to the application into vector x (also expecting pointers)
>>
>>
>> The problem - maybe a completely wrong approach when it comes to using PETSc: 
>>
>> With other linear algebra libraries, I included the library functionality in the code of a new solver accessing the functionality usually via header files and created a plugin which can be called from the application when running a simulation. 
>>
>> Even so the mixed code including PETSc code can be compiled, the bit of the plugin, interfacing with the application is broken as soon as I include more than a PETSc declaration in the mixed code.
>
> Sounds like maybe you haven't correctly linked to the PETSc library.
> Sending us the commands run and output/errors would be helpful to debug.
>
>> How to interface with PETSc from a software application?  (I am using c++ and Ubuntu)
>>
>> Klaus
>
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