Fw: Support project for libtensor

[Ulf Lorenz]

Hi,

regarding your question: I have attached a recent email from Juan Jose
on this issue. Short version: Right now, it is rather complicated, and
it is being worked on.

Unfortunately, that is the end of my knowledge, because I do not use
Windows. I would suggest trying out cygwin or virtualization software
with Unix inside (at least for the compiling; might be a pain if you
want to code outside of that, but I don't know).


Ulf



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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:02:46 +0000
From: <juanjose.g...@gmail.com>
To: "libt...@googlegroups.com" <libt...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Support project for libtensor


Right now one of my main development machines runs Windows. That is a
problem because none of the required libraries (ATLAS, MKL, etc) work
there or demand some hefty fees.


To simplify this and help me continue development on this computer I
have started a github repository with a version of the CLAPACK library
that builds using my own version of F2C


https://github.com/juanjosegarciaripoll/cblapack


The advantadges

It works out of the box in cygwin (clapack doesn’t)
It autoconfigures itself
Using the new f2c means it is faster tan clapack (ABS and friends are
inlined) It ships as an independent library well distinguished from
other ports of clapack Tensor can be (in the near future) easily
customized to work with it. In the near future I expect to port it to
MSVC. With this, and a port of the f2c library, then Tensor would work
with Microsoft’s compiler.


Help is welcome.


Juanjo