[mlpack] Generating archive/static mllib.a on ubuntu linux
Ryan Curtin
ryan at ratml.org
Mon Aug 3 13:04:32 EDT 2015
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:50:42PM -0400, Steven Varga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for some reasons only shared objects are generated; which makes it
> cumbersome to use the library on a cluster; where static linking is
> preferred.
>
> Is there any way to produce static library (archive) ?
>
> best,
> steve
Hi Steve,
At the moment a static library is produced on Windows but not on Linux.
I didn't know that dynamic linking made things difficult on a cluster.
I'm happy to help through the process (and integrate our results into
the master branch), but there may be a little back-and-forth here as we
center in on getting the process right.
My first suggestion would be to change the line
add_library(mlpack SHARED ${MLPACK_SRCS})
to
add_library(mlpack ${MLPACK_SRCS})
in src/mlpack/CMakeLists.txt (line 25 in the master branch, line 24 in
mlpack-1.0.12).
That should generate a statically-linked libmlpack.a, but I am not sure
if that will be enough for your purposes. Can you try that and let me
know if that is sufficient? If so, I'll add and document a new CMake
configuration flag.
Thanks,
Ryan
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