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Re: Wolfram LinkLibrary and additional dll on Windows

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  • Subject: [mg121989] Re: Wolfram LinkLibrary and additional dll on Windows
  • From: "Oleksandr Rasputinov" <oleksandr_rasputinov at hmamail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 05:33:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:53:10 +0100, Patrick Scheibe  
<pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a package which has its number crunching algorithms in a C++  
> library which is connected to Mathematica through the LibraryLink.  
> Inside my algorithms I use the Intel Threading building blocks
> [1] heavily. I have this library compiled for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows  
> and inside each LibraryResources directory, I distribute the tbb.{so |  
> dylib | dll}. Everythings works fine except for 2 Windows machines.
> On those two machines the Intel compiler tools are not installed and  
> therefore, my lib has to rely on the
> tbb.dll which is distributed in the same directory.
>
> Loading the package brings up an error dialog, that says that the  
> tbb.dll could not be found.
>
> 1. Using FindLibrary["tbb"] brings up the correct path inside my package.
>
> 2. Taking any arbitrarily chosen function from the tbb and register it  
> with, for instance
>
> LibraryFunctionLoad["tbb", "TBB_runtime_interface_version", {}, Integer];
>
> and *then* loading my package, works without error.
>
> 3. Trying to put this preload inside the WolframLibrary_initialize  
> function with something like
>
> #if defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WIN64)
> 	tbbLib = LoadLibrary("tbb.dll");
> 	if(tbbLib != NULL) {
> 		tbbInitializeFunctionType version = (tbbInitializeFunctionType)  
> GetProcAddress(tbbLib,
> 			"TBB_runtime_interface_version");
> 		char msg[100];
> 		sprintf(msg,"Die TBB version ist: %d\n",version());
> 		lib->Message(msg);
> 	}
> #endif
>
> does not work. Maybe important at this point is, that there is no longer  
> an "error dialog" coming up. There
> is now only an Mathematica error message saying, that the library  
> function could not be loaded. I assume my
> dll is crashed silently. On the other
> windows machines with the intel compiler installed everything works fine  
> and the version number is displayed
> when the library is loaded first.
>
> 4. The dependency walker says that everything is fine with my library.  
> No wrong modules and the tbb comes from the directory
> where my library is located
>
> 5. Trying to profile math.exe with the dependency walker and loading my  
> package does not bring any useful information.
> In fact, I don't see any dlopen or whatsoever when I load my package.  
> This *suggests* that the tbb is not found in the first
> place, but this is only a guess and I don't understand this.
>
>
> I'm not a Windows guy and I'm not a soldier in the dll-hell, so can  
> someone please give me a helping hand here or point me to
> some useful documentation? Do I maybe need to create a special manifest  
> file? Does it make a difference whether a
> dll is not loaded by Mathematica directly, but through another dll?
>
> Currently I'm out of ideas how to track this down.
>
> Cheers
> Patrick
>
> [1] http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-tbb/

The issue may be that LoadLibrary("tbb.dll") fails due to not locating  
tbb.dll on the search path--note that Windows's search path and  
Mathematica's $LibraryPath are in general very different (for example, on  
my system they contain nothing in common). If this is the case, then as I  
see it you have at least three options:

1. set the Windows search path to $LibraryPath using SetDllDirectory()  
before calling LoadLibrary() (here I assume that you would rather not  
hard-code a fully qualified path due to possible difference between  
installations);
2. load the library using LoadLibrary(), but giving a fully qualified path  
to the file as found by FindLibrary[];
3. use LoadLibrary["tbb.dll"] as part of your package initialization to  
have Mathematica do this for you before you load your own library.

Of these, option 3 seems preferable to me. Actually, I'm surprised that  
LibraryFunctionLoad worked on tbb.dll considering that this will not  
contain any WolframLibrary_initialize function or indeed adhere to the  
Wolfram Library specification in any other respect.



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