On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to build R on NT4 with link to ATLAS?
> I''ve downloaded all the tools, compilers and libraries on
> Prof. Ripley''s Rtools "portal", and the pre-built binary
ATLAS
> for Pentium II from netlib. In src/gnuwin32/INSTALL, it
> says to edit MkRules and Makefile, but I don''t see any
> reference to BLAS or ATLAS in those files.
I assume that you have made ATLAS compile on Windows? I failed with the
current version ....
You will need to do a fair bit of work. BLAS uses src/appl/blas.f. Remove
that and re-make in src/appl, then link lapack.so and R.dll against the
ATLAS dll you made.
> Also, where should I put libz.a, libpng.a and libjpeg.a after
> I compiled them from source?
src/gnuwin32/bitmap/INSTALL tells you what to do, indeed the options you
need to compile them. You don''t need to move them from there.
> BTW, anyone know where to find the MS HTML Help Workshop?
> The link on the Rtools portal doesn''t find it. Search on MSDN
> turns up nothing either.
That''s recent: it worked last week, as I checked all the links in
R-1.3.0 before release.
It comes with VisualStudio, for example. Looks like it is now part of
.NET beta SDK.
I''ll try to find out if I have permission to put it up.
> I really would like to have R compiled with ATLAS. I did this
> on a Linux box, and the speed improvement for some matrix
> operations is amazing. For example, cor() runs approx. 10x
> faster than R1.2.3 and Splus 6 on the same platform.
(My tests were much less spectacular. After running R with ATLAS on both
Linux and Solaris I stopped, as I rarely saw more than a few percent gain
on my real tasks. Your mileage may vary.)
>
> TIA for any help!
If you do succeed, contribute back what you did please.
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