From: Brian Van Straalen Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: Re: Building a portable library? Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:41:41 -0700 Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Message-Id: <37681A15.F6D78AE4@lbl.gov> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:5217 John Bircsak wrote: > > Where might I find information pertaining to building a library > based on MPI, that is portable? By this I mean that I would be > able to use the same library, without re-compilation, at several > different sites, each with a potentially different MPI implementation. > > Has anyone out there done this? > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > My old boss was keen on this, when I was a commercial developer. He was paranoid about other people getting and stealing our source code (silly boss...). MPI is a source code API. You will have to sit down and roll a binary one if you want it (none exist, to my knowledge). Brian -- Brian Van Straalen Lawrence Berkeley Lab BVStraalen@lbl.gov National Energy Research (510) 486-7665 Scientific Computing Center