Re: Mathlink probs under Unix
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- Subject: [mg26275] Re: Mathlink probs under Unix
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:19:47 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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On 6 Dec 2000 02:56:14 -0500, number9 <number9 at cox-internet.com> wrote: > Hello, I have a Mathematica problem that perhaps someone has come across... > > I have a Sun box running Solaris8 with Mathematica 4.0 installed. I am trying to > > compile the "fastbinary" addon (binary.tm) for Mathematica. I have downloaded it > > from mathsource and I am having some problems compiling it. (I am using > GNU gcc for my compiler). From what I have read, I can either use mcc to > > compile this (with the CC flag set to gcc) or use mprep and them compile > > by hand. Here is what is going on: > > Using mcc: > > $ mcc -o binary > -l/usr/local/mathematica/AddOns/MathLink/DevelopersKits/Solaris/CompilerAdditions/ > binary.tm -lnsl -lsocket > binary.tm:468: unterminated character constant > > Manually: > > $ mprep binary.tm -o binary..c > $ gcc -o binary > -l/usr/local/mathematica/AddOns/MathLink/DevelopersKits/Solaris/CompilerAdditions/ > binary.c -lnsl -lsocket > binary.tm:468: unterminated character constant > > I can not seem to get around this. I have ftp'd the files to another > solaris host w/Mathematica > and I get slightly differing results (it complains with mcc about 4000 > errors and fails) > > I am probably doing something idiotic, as I have not compiled anything > in years... > but I would like to know what it is. I am trying to read in some large > data sets > and I have heard that this is the way to do it (w/fast binary) I can't reproduce this using GCC 2.8.1 for Solaris running on a Solaris 2.6 machine. The build steps that I used were: mprep binary.tm -o binary.tm.c gcc -c -I <path to mathlink.h> binary.tm.c gcc -o binary -L <path to libML.a> binary.tm.o -lnsl -lsocket -lm -lML Note the additional flags that link to the math and MathLink libraries in the linking pass. What release of GCC are you using? -- P.J. Hinton User Interface Programmer paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc.