Re: [eigen] 3.3.8 expected on September 7

Hi Gael,

I've ran the test suite on my machine yesterday (latest MSVC, cl 19.27.29111), it looks like it's on CDash now - 3 tests failed https://my.cdash.org/viewTest.php?buildid=1875133.

It took an insane amount of time to compile all the tests (I think more than 6 hours - with parallel build and an i7-7700HQ).

I've also tested the 3.3 branch with my open-source software on the latest VS 2019 in C++17 mode, and there were no apparent problems.

The same as Rob, I would also welcome the patch that makes EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW unnecessary with C++17, but if it can't come in 3.3.8, then hopefully 3.4 will come soon! :-)

I also got

>> -- Performing Test EIGEN_COMPILER_SUPPORT_CPP11 - Failed

which confused me a bit. I've reported this in the issue you linked.

In contrast to Edward, I did get all the "BLAS not found" warnings too, but it all ran through on the command-line (I'm guessing all BLAS functionality was automatically disabled).

Thank you very much to you, David, and everyone else!

Best wishes,

Patrik

On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 02:49, Edward Lam <edward@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi David,

Any ideas on why not even "Eigen BLAS" can't be found? Or is this an OK warning?

FWIW. my initial cmake seemed to write out project files despite all the warnings. However, running the ctest command didn't work as it looked like it tried to run cmake again and failed to build. Then I opened up the Visual Studio project manually and had it do a release build that seemed to work. After that, running the ctest command seemed to work finally.

Cheers,
-Edward

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:37 PM David Tellenbach <david.tellenbach@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Edward,

Thanks for your effort.

I think this is issue #1950 (https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/issues/1950).

Thanks,
David

On 28. Aug 2020, at 17:08, Edward Lam <edward@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've never tried to compile eigen tests before. So from build dir, I ran:

cmake .. -DEIGEN_TEST_BUILD_FLAGS="-j 8" -DEIGEN_TEST_CXX11=ON -DEIGEN_TEST_FMA=ON -DEIGEN_TEST_AVX=ON >& cmake_log.txt

And I was surprised to see:

-- Performing Test EIGEN_COMPILER_SUPPORT_CPP11 - Failed

But this is the latest MSVC 2019 compiler so it shouldn't fail.

I had no BLAS installed but I still expected to find Eigen BLAS?

CMake Warning at cmake/FindBLAS.cmake:1371 (message):
BLA_VENDOR has been set to All but blas libraries could not be found or
check of symbols failed.

Thanks,
-Edward

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:29 AM Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear all,

let me start by taking this opportunity to thank David for revitalizing Eigen's developpement.

Thank to that, at long last we're having a new release of the stable 3.3 branch within a few days. Since it receives many more changesets than usual for such a minor release, it would be very welcome if some of you could test it with your favorite compiler and options:

git clone https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen -b 3.3 eigen3.3
cd eigen3.3
mkdir build
cd build

# run cmake adapting the options to your Eigen's usage, e.g.:
CXX=clang++-9 cmake .. -DEIGEN_TEST_BUILD_FLAGS="-j 8" -DEIGEN_TEST_CXX11=ON -DEIGEN_TEST_CUDA=ON -DEIGEN_TEST_FMA=ON -DEIGEN_TEST_AVX=ON -DEIGEN_TEST_OPENMP=ON

# run ctest while submitting to cdash:
ctest -V -D Experimental -j 8

Cheers,
Gaël

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