Re: Lapack libraries

[JG <j2003gi@yahoo.es>]

Hi,

Simon Tod <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> The quickest way to build a library of all the Fortran
> codes available in LAPACK appeared to be just by
> apt-get-ing lapack and blas/atlas. I was kinda
> expecting this in install Fortran libraries with names
> like liblapack.a that I could just link to at compile
> time, but I don't, only lapack.so and lapack.so.2
> (maybe they have a 'lib' in front, I forget!) These
> are what, C libraries?! 

These are shared libraries.

> How do I link to them at
> compilation time with g77, or how do I use them to
> create liblapack.a?

".a" libraries are static libraries, included in the development ("-dev")
packages:

apt-get install liblapack-dev 

and the same for other packages. Hope this helps,

Jaume

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