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Lotte Wang
Lotte Wang

Reputation: 31

Cannot link the BLAS from Accelerate Framework during compilation -OS Yosemite 10.0.5

I created a matrix multiplicity code for an assignment but could not get the function working, so I suspect it is the BLAS lib not linked properly. In OS X, the BLAS has been built into the Accelerate Framework, so in makefile I linked the lib by -framework Accelerateand in cpp I also include the header by #include<Accelerate/Accelerate.h>

During compilation, my error is:

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"dgemm_(char*, char*, int*, int*, int*, double*, double*, int*, double*, int*, double*, double*, int*)"

So I created a simple test code but I still get the error during compilation:

test_2.cpp:35:3: error: use of undeclared identifier 'dgemm_'
  dgemm_(&TRANSA, &TRANSB, &M, &N, &K, &ALPHA, A, &LDA, B, &LDB, &BETA, ...
  ^
  1 error generated.

My simple test code is compiled with 

 clang++  -o test_2.exe test_2.cpp -framework Accelerate

My simple code is :

#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <cfloat>
#include <cmath>
#include <sys/time.h>
#ifdef __APPLE__
#include <Accelerate/Accelerate.h>
#else
#include <cblas.h>
#endif

using namespace std;
int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
 int n=10;
 int N=n;
 double *A = (double*) malloc( n * n * sizeof(double) );
 double *B = (double*) malloc( n * n * sizeof(double) );
 double *C = (double*) malloc( n * n * sizeof(double) );
 char TRANSA = 'N';
 char TRANSB = 'N';
 int M = N;
 int K = N;
 double ALPHA = 1.;
 double BETA = 0.;
 int LDA = N;
 int LDB = N;
 int LDC = N;
 dgemm_(&TRANSA, &TRANSB, &M, &N, &K, &ALPHA, A, &LDA, B, &LDB, &BETA, C, &LDC);
 return 0;
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3024

Answers (1)

nneonneo
nneonneo

Reputation: 179452

Per the documentation, Accelerate.framework prefixes all BLAS functions with cblas_. For example, the dgemm function is declared as

void cblas_dgemm(const enum CBLAS_ORDER ORDER, const enum CBLAS_TRANSPOSE TRANSA, const enum CBLAS_TRANSPOSE TRANSB, const __LAPACK_int M, const __LAPACK_int N, const __LAPACK_int K, const double ALPHA, const double *A, const __LAPACK_int LDA, const double *B, const __LAPACK_int LDB, const double BETA, double *C, const __LAPACK_int LDC);

Upvotes: 2

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