Compiling lapack 3.1.1 on Leopard
2008 August 23
OSX contains an incomplete lapack library by default in the vecLib framework.
But if you want the full power of lapack 3.1.1, you have to compile from source.
This article documents that process, mostly so when I have to do it again
I’ll have a reference.
The first thing we notice is that OSX does not contain a fortran compiler
in its developer tools. The
gfortran project
contains a nice dmg installer. Two other options are compiling from source
or using macports. I chose macports.
$ sudo port install gcc43
Create some convenient links for standard gfortran calls.
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/local/bin/gfortran-mp-4.3 /usr/local/bin/gfortran $ sudo ln -sf /opt/local/bin/gfortran-mp-4.3 /usr/local/bin/g77
Next download
lapack.tgz source
(current 3.1.1 as of this writing) and untar it.
$ tar xzvf lapack.tgz
Lapack does not contain the standard configure script, so we have to edit
the make.inc ourselves. Copy the make.inc.example to make.inc, then apply
this patch.
$ patch < make.inc.patch
That’s it, all that’s left is to compile. I do so with 6 make threads.
$ make -j6
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