Porting application from NTL to M4RI

[Sebastian]

Hi all,

I want to port an application that uses NTL to a version that will use M4RI. I'm wondering if there exists a guide/cheatsheet to help me with this process? Otherwise, can anyone give me some hints whether this kind of port is challenging due to reasons such as re-engineering, or if it is straightforward?

Thanks,

Sebastian   

[Martin Albrecht]

Hi Sebastian,

I actually don't know the NTL API well enough to suggest particular tips, but
I guess the biggest difference is M4RI is C not C++. To see how use M4RI from
an object oriented language, the Sage bindings could be of interest:

http://hg.sagemath.org/sage-main/src/tip/sage/matrix/matrix_mod2_dense.pyx

Also, let us know where and if the API documentation isn't as clear as it
should be:

http://m4ri.sagemath.org/m4ri-doxygen/index.html

But in a nutshell you'd always setup your matrices by some call to:

mzd_t * A = mzd_init(m, n);

and then call some function mzd_foo() on A, where A->foo() in an object
oriented language becomes mzd_foo(A).


Cheers,
Martin

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