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Error linking lapack and blas to armadillo

asked 2022-04-25 01:01:57 -0500

updated 2022-04-25 16:26:11 -0500

Hi

I am using ROS2 Foxy for my development project. I am trying to use armadillo library in my code primarily to calculate pseudo inverse of a non-square matrix. I declare the library at the beginning of the code:

include <armadillo>

and also in the Cmakelists of the package for compiling:

find_package(Armadillo REQUIRED)
function(custom_executable subfolder target)
  add_executable(${target} src/${subfolder}/${target}.cpp)
  ament_target_dependencies(${target}
    rclcpp
    px4_msgs
    geometry_msgs
    Armadillo
  )
  install(TARGETS ${target}
  DESTINATION lib/${PROJECT_NAME})
endfunction()

However, when I try to run the pinv function to calculate the pseudo inverse, the following linking errors pops up highlighting that lapack and blas are not linked to Armadillo:

undefined reference to 'wrapper2_dgetrs_' 
undefined reference to 'wrapper2_dgecon_' etc.

These are just a few errors I have listed. There are more errors which indicate that lapack and blas library are not linked to Armadillo. Please help me solve this error. There should be a way to link the libraries to Armadillo in the Cmakelists...

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answered 2022-04-25 18:47:00 -0500

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It seems that the -llapack and -lblas linking options are not implicit. In addition to what you have, you may want to find and link against those imported targets too:

find_package(BLAS REQUIRED)
find_package(LAPACK REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(${target} PRIVATE BLAS::BLAS LAPACK::LAPACK)
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Thanks @aprotyas for your quick reply. I have included the packages as you mentioned. But for linking the libraries to Armadillo specifically, I have to add Armadillo library along with its path using:

add_library(Armadillo /path/to/Armadillo/library)

and then link libraries BLAS and LAPACK to it. Unfortunately that overwrites find_package(Armadillo REQUIRED) and breaks the link to some parts of the Armadillo library.

I have checked the headers: #define ARMA_USE_LAPACK and #define ARMA_USE_BLAS are already uncommented in the config.hpp file of armadillo_bits. So as per my understanding Armadillo should already be using BLAS and LAPACK installed.

However, the error persists. And I am still stuck on the fact that Armadillo is not linked to the BLAS AND LAPACK during compiling at least.

karanjotsingh010 gravatar image karanjotsingh010  ( 2022-04-26 03:44:22 -0500 )edit

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