Re: [Lapackpp-devel] Compiling errors of tCmplxSolve.cc with updated lapackpp 2.4.12

[Aosheng R. <ro...@gm...>]

Christian,

>From headfile lacomplex,  I noticed that you indeed define
complex<double> for gcc only, but not check the definition for msvc.

I would try to make the modification, after I carefully check
lacomplex, complex on MSVC and complex on GNU C++ . If you have any
good suggestions, just let me know. I need to figure out the
architecture of lapackpp.

Regards,
-------------
Rong

On 8/20/06, Christian Stimming <sti...@tu...> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 19. August 2006 13:35 schrieb Aosheng Rong:
> > Can you add complex-value matrix support  on Windows?  The
> > complex-value matrices are of essential to my applications. Lapackpp
> > supports the complex-value matrices  very well on Linux.
>
> Lapackpp supports complex-valued matrices on Windows as well, only with the
> gcc compiler and not (yet) with the MSVC compiler. (And C++, in contrast to
> C, is not compiler-independent.) I only need those matrices with the gcc
> compiler, so I have no motivation for myself to spend this extra effort.
>
> You are invited to implement this yourself. In fact, why haven't you tried
> what I said? Add the macro LA_COMPLEX_SUPPORT to the MSVC project properties
> (C++ -> precompiler), and maybe add a few source files that haven't been
> added to the MSVC project because they only contain complex-matrix related
> code. matrix/src/gmc.cc, vc.cc and lavc.cc would be some that come to my
> mind.
>
> The only real problem that could occur is the definition of the
> la::complex<double> (typedef'd as LaComplex) in include/complex. The template
> complex<...> class definition in that file was initially copied from gcc's
> definition of complex<...>. Someone who wants to add complex support to MSVC
> would have to check whether these definitions can be used in MSVC as well,
> and potentially add some
> #ifdef __GNUC__
>  // existing code for gcc
> #else
>  // new code for MSVC instead
> #endif
> everywhere.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Christian
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ----------
> >
> > On 8/19/06, Christian Stimming <sti...@tu...> wrote:
> > > Seems to me you didn't compile the library lapackpp itself with the macro
> > > LA_COMPLEX_SUPPORT defined. In the included vcproj file this is not (yet)
> > > defined because, as I already said several times, the support for
> > > complex-valued matrices in MSVC is untested so far.
> > >
> > > Christian
>