[SciPy-User] Linking to BLAS from an extension

[Hjalmar Turesson]

Hi,

I'm trying to call dgemm (a BLAS routine) from a C extension. It compiles
fine, but when I try to import my python file containing the extension, I
get an import error:


ImportError: ./_C_fast_spikesort.so: undefined symbol: dgemm_


>From http://www.math.utah.edu/software/lapack.html I got the impression that
gcc doesn't automatically record the location of the BLAS libary, so that at
runtime dgemm is not found. Thus, they recommend to put the LDFLAGS line in
the make file. But this doesn't help. Make file below:

# ---- Record the location of BLAS-----
LDFLAGS  = Wl, -rpath /usr/lib

# ---- Link ---------------------------
_C_fast_spikesort.so:  C_fast_spikesort.o
gcc -shared C_fast_spikesort.o -o _C_fast_spikesort.so

# ---- gcc C compile ------------------
C_fast_spikesort.o:  C_fast_spikesort.c C_fast_spikesort.h
gcc -c -fPIC C_fast_spikesort.c -I/usr/include/python2.7
-I/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include/numpy -L /usr/lib
-lblas

How should I fix it? Is it better to use cblas, and include cblas.h instead?
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