[mpich-discuss] Linking to personal libraries

Fri Jun 7 08:35:17 CDT 2013

As long as you have *.a versions of your library, you can use those instead of the *.so versions. You'll need to pass -static to mpicc to make that work.

You also need to link MPICH statically, but as of all of the released versions of MPICH, that is the default behavior. In future releases, that will change. I believe the configure flag that you'll have to use is --enable-static, but I could be wrong about that.

Wesley

On Jun 7, 2013, at 4:48 AM, Alejandro Allievi <alejandro.allievi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good morning Wesley,
> 
> Under NFS, is there a way to bypass dynamic linking and "force" static linking??
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Alejandro Allievi <alejandro.allievi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks!!
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Wesley Bland <wbland at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> No, this is the correct way to do it.
> 
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Alejandro Allievi <alejandro.allievi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is there a better way??
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Wesley Bland <wbland at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> That's true and for most smallish clusters, that's how people use it.
>> 
>> On Jun 6, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Alejandro Allievi <alejandro.allievi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Wesley,
>>> 
>>> Just to clarify myself: provided our NFS mirrors my home directory and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set correctly, the dynamic compile/link step for the user (me) is the same as for static compile/link??
>>> 
>>> Thanks again Wesley!!
>>> 
>>> Alejandro
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Wesley Bland <wbland at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>> It depends on whether you are linking your library statically or dynamically. If you are linking statically, the linker puts everything in one executable that is sent to all of the nodes. If you do it dynamically, you need to make sure your libraries are available on all of the nodes you will be using (usually by using something like NFS to mirror your home directory across the cluster. You will also need to make sure your environment is set up correctly to allow the libraries to be found on the remote process, usually via an environment variable such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH. 
>>> 
>>> Wesley
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 6, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Alejandro Allievi <alejandro.allievi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi  
>>>> 
>>>> When linking to personal libraries using MPICH2, how does each process access them in a distributed environment?? Does the linker actually combines everything into a single executable program and "sends a copy" of entire executable to each process even though not all processes may use the libraries?? Can somebody shed some light on the entire linking process??
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for any help!!
>>>> 
>>>> Alejandro
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