[SciPy-User] Calling LAPACK function dbdsqr()?
Philip Semanchuk
philip at semanchuk.com
Fri Dec 14 14:24:54 EST 2012
On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote:
> Philip Semanchuk <philip <at> semanchuk.com> writes:
> [clip]
>>> CLAPACK is also abandonware, LAPACKE is the current C/C++ interface.
>>> Thus with any recent LAPACK, there will be no clapack in SciPy.
>>
>> Hmmm, well that's disappointing to hear, but better to know
>> now than finding out the hard way later.
>>
>> Maybe a pure-Python + numpy/scipy solution for this just
>> isn't possible right now.
>
> However, you should still be able to use ctypes to interface with the
> Fortran routines in scipy/linalg/flapack.so
>
> While the CLAPACK is not always present, the Fortran-based LAPACK is.
>
> This may however require some fiddling with the calling conventions.
> So testing with multiple platforms will be needed, but perhaps you
> are OK with doing that...
Hmm, this just gets more and more interesting...
My Python code was already calling a compiled Fortran version of dbdsqr() via ctypes. (This version of dbdsqr() is in our custom library -- the one I'm porting -- and it's the only thing I haven't yet been able to port to Python.) Just now I was able to swap out the reference to our custom library and use Jonathan Helmus' technique to get a scipy reference to dbdsqr. All I changed was the library reference, and it worked! So now I'm totally independent of our compiled custom library under OS X. That's excellent news.
The not-so-excellent news is that on Windows I installed scipy 0.11.0 (the same version that's on my Mac) and it does *not* seem to provide a reference to dbdsqr(). I also looked for _dbdsqr, dbdsqr_, _dbdsqr_, etc. and it's just not there. I can get a reference to e.g. zgelss --
>>> hasattr(scipy.linalg.lapack.flapack, 'zgelss')
True
But not dbdsqr. I guess this is an artifact of the LAPACK library against which scipy was compiled?
bye
Philip
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