Lapack

About

Lapack (short for Linear Algebra PACKage) is a library of mathematical functions for performing mathematical operations on real and complex scalars as well as matrices.

Website

http://www.netlib.org/lapack/

Installation Instructions and Quickstart

1. (Optional) Install CMAKE

• Website for CMAKE is http://www.cmake.org/
• Get Binary distribution, Win32 Installer

 2. Download and install pre-built LAPACK binaries and headers

• Website for prebuilt binaries is http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-for-windows/lapack/#libraries_mingw
• Get all of the win32 dll and lib files, as well as the header files
• Put header files into %USERPROFILE%/include
• Put lib and dll files into %USERPROFILE%/lib

3. Download manpages

• Website is from http://www.netlib.org/lapack/#_manpages
• Install manpage files into ~/man/man3 (e.g. in your Cygwin home directory)

4. Read the C program example on http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapacke.html

• Type "man 3 DGELS" in a unix terminal to get the corresponding manpage for LAPACKE_dgels
• Notice the difference in calling convention between Fortran and C functions
• Compile program with "-lblas -llapack -llapacke"
• NOTE: The required dll files (at least liblapack.dll) should be in the same directory as the EXE

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