install Lapack++

Can anyone please guide me through the installation. I studied the accompanying installation notes and still had problems. When a extracted it, there was no Libs folder (fig1 from Release notes and installation manual).
Cheers

Perhaps you need to compile the lib yourself, using the project file(s) provided?

Has anyone used Lapack for their codes?

Try the project mailing lists.

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Originally Posted by shuo

Has anyone used Lapack for their codes?

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Yes. It's a bit annoying to install, especially on windows. However if you are on windows why not just use amds core math library?
http://developer.amd.com/acml.jsp I
ntel has one too that might even be free for linux and for non commercial use.

For linux most distros will have lapack and blas libraries, however it's usually better to compile your own after downloading the atlas source. There's a factor of 5 or so improvement to be had in some cases for a library tuned to your hardware. You may be able to find some pre compiled binaries that match your architecture as well. After that there is an annoying install for the rest of the lapack library, but it's not too bad if you just follow the instructions. Expect a few hours to compile atlas however.

I am using ubuntu now. What is this atlas source?

Nice! Another Ubuntu user :P

Try

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apt-cache search lapack

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A nice list of available software:

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lapack3 - library of linear algebra routines 3 - shared version
lapack3-dev - library of linear algebra routines 3 - static version
lapack3-doc - library of linear algebra routines 3 - documentation
python-numeric-ext - Extension modules for Numeric Python
python-numeric-ext-dbg - Extension modules for Numeric Python
refblas3 - Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, shared library
refblas3-dev - Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, static library
refblas3-doc - Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, documentation
atlas3-3dnow - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software,3dnow shared
atlas3-3dnow-dev - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software,3dnow static
atlas3-base - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software,generic shared
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