Building MAGMA on Windows

[berktaftali]

Hi!

I am trying to build MAGMA for Windows with the following development environment:
- Windows 10
- Magma 2.5.2
- CUDA 10.2
- Intel Fortran & MKL 2019 (Parallel Studio XE 2019.5.281)
- Visual Studio 2017 (15.9.20)
- CMake 3.16.4

I've been using prebuilt libraries for Pytorch so far, but they lack OpenMP support so I cannot use some of the preconditioners I'd like to test with the sparse iterative solvers, hence the need to build MAGMA locally.

I followed the instructions in README-Windows and used CMake to create Visual Studio 2017 projects. When I tried to build magma & magma_sparse projects, I got the following errors:

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magma:

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Building NVCC intermediate link file CMakeFiles/magma.dir/Release/magma_intermediate_link.obj
  The system cannot execute the specified program.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(209,5): error MSB6006: "cmd.exe" exited with code 9020.

magma_sparse:

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The command line is too long.

I've seen posts in the forum recommending creating NMake projects instead of Visual Studio projects using CMake to get around similar errors, but I didn't have much luck getting it to work.

Any help compiling Magma for Windows with MKL & OpenMP support is deeply appreciated.

Berk

[mgates3]

This is a known issue with CMake on Windows (see issue below). We have not yet found a feasible work around.
https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/ ... ote_642545

Mark

[Julian]

Same issue using vcpkg for dependencies, VS2019, cmake->solution, cmake->nmake.

I've done some Googling around and came across this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/431 ... ng-windows.

So have added

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SET(CMAKE_C_USE_RESPONSE_FILE_FOR_OBJECTS 1)
SET(CMAKE_CXX_USE_RESPONSE_FILE_FOR_OBJECTS 1)

SET(CMAKE_C_RESPONSE_FILE_LINK_FLAG "@")
SET(CMAKE_CXX_RESPONSE_FILE_LINK_FLAG "@")

to the top of `CMakeLists.txt` to try and force the use of response files. I'm doing this blindly, with not a lot of understanding.
Am trying to build this as one of the pre-reqs for an optional feature of the AliceVision framework.

As the build takes a long time to get to the point where it fails, I'll write back if this works. If I don't write back, this didn't work.

@mgates3 - Could a note be added to the windows readme re it not building for windows ATM?

[Julian]

Confirming that even with adding the directive to use response files, it still doesn't compile on Windows.

[kerry87]

Did you try another version of Windows? As far as I know, Windows 10 tend to have installed its own libraries of .NET and maybe that is creating some conflicts with CPP

[leonakappa]

Hello
I am also trying to build magma in windows, without success so far.

I wonder,were there particular problems that you encountered in building MAGMA, using the directions in README-Windows?

[kerry87]

Hello
I am also trying to build magma in windows, without success so far.

I wonder,were there particular problems that you encountered in building MAGMA, using the directions in README-Windows?

Can you share the error message? or give us a bit more context? It will be easier to receive a potential solution from some of us

[lacrymose]

Hello
I am also trying to build magma in windows, without success so far either. same erros as that of berktaftali occur. Will these problems be solved in the near future?

[mgates3]

As noted above, it's an issue in CMake. They don't seem to be making any progress on it.
https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/ ... ote_642545

Mark