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Intel Fortran Compiler

IMPORTANT: Use the default installation directory to install the Intel Fortran Compiler (any version).

Intel Fortran Compiler versions 7.1 and 8.1 compile the XBC option tree and other X-Midas host primitives written in Fortran (see X-Midas Backwards Compatibility (XBC) for details on X-Midas host primitives in NeXtMidas).

Because of significant changes made between Intel Fortran Compiler versions 7.1 and 8.1, different configuration options are required. Refer to the appropriate section for instructions:

Intel Fortran Compiler 7.1

Intel Fortran Compiler 7.1 (ifc) is the default Fortran compiler for NeXtMidas 2.0.X (and earlier). To use this compiler with later versions of NeXtMidas, change the native.lin.for.comp and native.lin.for.link build properties in $NMROOT/nxm/sys/cfg/build.props:

Intel Fortran Compiler 7.1 Intel Fortran Compiler 8.1
native.lin.for.comp = ${ifc.comp}
native.lin.for.link = ${ifc.link}		 native.lin.for.comp = ${ifort.comp}
native.lin.for.link = ${ifort.link}

Intel Fortran Compiler for 32-bit applications 8.1

Intel Fortran Compiler for 32-bit applications 8.1 (ifort) is the default Fortran compiler for NeXtMidas 2.1.X (and later). To use this compiler with earlier versions of NeXtMidas, change the native.lin.for.comp and native.lin.for.link build properties in $NMROOT/nxm/sys/cfg/build.props:

Intel Fortran Compiler 7.1 Intel Fortran Compiler 8.1
native.lin.for.comp = ${ifc.comp}
native.lin.for.link = ${ifc.link}		 native.lin.for.comp = ${ifort.comp}
native.lin.for.link = ${ifort.link}

Some Linux installations cannot find the ifort shared libraries until they are manually added to the /lib directory. The following steps verify this particular system problem:

  1. Start NeXtMidas.
  2. Add XBC to the NeXtMidas path (use PATH ADD XBC).
  3. Re-build all of the code in XBC (use BLD ALL ALL XBC).
  4. Run the SD360 primitive (use SD360 1e20). If the libraries are not found the primitive locks up and an error message similar to this appears: 
    Shell.loadLibrary err: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
/home/smith/nxm210/nxm/xbc/lib/libHPrimitive_lin.so:
libifcore.so.5 cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
    (If this happens, use Control-C to kill the current Java session.)

The following steps add the ifort runtime libraries to /lib (where /opt/intel_fc_80 is the installation directory for ifort): 

$ cd /lib
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libcprts.so.5
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libcxa.so.5
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libcxaguard.so.5
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libguide.so
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libguide_stats.so
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libifcore.so.5
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libifcoremt.so.5
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libifport.so.5
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libimf.so
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libsvml.so
$ ln -s /opt/intel_fc_80/lib/libunwind.so.5


Using OpenMP for the Intel Compiler

OpenMP is an API that supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing programming. The following configuration is an example of using OpenMP with an X-Midas Fortran primitive.

  • Update the SYS build.props ($NMROOT/nxm/sys/cfg/build.props)
    • Update and uncomment the location for the Intel compiler directory (e.g.):
      • ifort.libs.dir = /opt/intel/Compiler/11.1/075/lib/intel64/                        (ifort version 11.1.x and prior)
      • ifort.libs.dir = /opt/intel/composerxe-2011.1.107/compiler/lib/intel64  (ifort version 12.x and later)
    • Update and uncomment the following line. The library reference adjusts as appropriate to the compiler version.
      • ifort.link.append = -L${fflags.fortlibs} -lguide -Wl,-rpath=${fflags.fortlibs}  (ifort version 11.1.x and prior)
      • ifort.link.append = -L${fflags.fortlibs} -liomp5 -Wl,-rpath=${fflags.fortlibs} (ifort version 12.x and later)
  • Add a line to your primitive to prior to running the M$CHECKIN 
      call setenvqq("KMP_HANDLE_SIGNALS=false")
    OR In the OS shell prior to running nmstart 
      setenv KMP_HANDLE_SIGNALS false
  • Add a line to the cfg/primitives.cfg file in the option tree (PUT CREATE SOMETHING HERE). See the $NMROOT/nxm/sys/hlp/using_libraries.doc for a copy of X-Midas's docs for a detailed description, syntax, and examples usages of primitives.cfg or the primitives.cfg section of the BUILD explain file.

    Add the -openmp compile flag to enable to OpenMP directive(s) for the primitive.

      openmp_example:
    cflags + -openmp

  openmp_cpp_example:
    cflags + -openmp
  • An example can be found in the XBCTESTOPT2 option tree at $NMROOT/nxm/xbc/test/nmopts/nxm/xbctestopt2

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