Professor Ripley, Thank your for pointing me in the right direction. I will start by reading the manual ;) >From what I can see the least painful way is still to use a fortran compiler, >so I will try to get my hands on the intel fortran compiler and cross compile >to MIC.
Thanks! Anwar On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On 25/06/2013 22:54, Anwar Ludin wrote: >> I need to rebuild an R interpreter for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor which >> can be considered as an embedded system. >> >> My only option is to use the intel compiler tools and cross compile the >> interpreter. My first stumbling block is that I don't have a fortran cross >> compiler and I would like to know if it's possible to build a minimal R >> system >> without the need of a fortran compiler. > > No. But it is possible to use f2c as a substitute Fortran compiler. This was > tested just prior to the release of R 3.0.0 to demonstrate that R could be > built using just 'clang'. > >> At the moment I've used the following options with the configure script: >> >> ./configure --host=x86_64 --enable-R-static-lib CXX=icpc CC=icc CFLAGS=-mmic >> CXXFLAGS=-mmic LDFLAGS=-mmic --with-readline=no >> --without-recommended-packages >> >> icpc and icc are the intel compilers. >> -mmic tells the compiler to cross compile for the Intel Xeon Phi. >> >> The configure script stops with the following error: >> >> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none >> checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... unknown >> configure: WARNING: unknown Fortran name-mangling scheme >> checking whether gfortran appends underscores to external names... unknown >> configure: error: cannot use Fortran >> >> Do I actually need Fortran in order to build the R interpreter? >> >> Any suggestions on how to move forwards would be greatly appreciated! > > Suggestion: study the manual. To quote the INSTALL file > > 'The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation > and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file > `doc/html/R-admin.html'. Please read that before installing R. But > if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to > resolve any problems.' > > It supplies some important information if you use f2c. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
