CMake scripts for painless usage of SuiteSparse+METIS from Visual Studio and the rest of Windows/Linux/OSX IDEs supported by CMake

I have problems with unresolved symbols similar to #7 when using suitesparse and ceres:

1>libcholmod.lib(cholmod_metis.o.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol METIS_NodeND referenced in function cholmod_metis
1>libcholmod.lib(cholmod_metis.o.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol METIS_ComputeVertexSeparator referenced in function cholmod_metis_bisector

Versions:

• Compiler: VS 2017
• Suitesparse-Metis: 1.4.0 (static)
• Ceres: 1.14.0 (static)
• OpenBLAS: 0.3.5 (shared)
• clapack: 3.2.1 (static)
• CMake: 3.14.0

A similar setup is working on a PC with VS 2015, but I think the problem is not related to the compiler itself. The libraries should be setup in a similar way as well, but I am not 100% sure about all CMake options (the old installation is a bit older than the new one). Any hints about possible causes of the error are welcome.

I need to look into a minimal example program, because I am not using suitesparse-metis directly.

Hi, Compilation with Metis goes ok but when I compile the cholmod example it says

libcholmod.lib(cholmod_metis.o.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _METIS_NodeComputeSeparator referenced in function _cholmod_metis_bisector

I'm using SuiteSparse 4.4.3 and I've tried Metis 5.0 and 5.1.

I am working a cross compiling project on Linux for Windows. My project needs this suitesparse package. I have cross compiled BLAS and LAPACK through MXE. However, I couldn't use the same progress to cross compile "suitesparse-metis-for-windows".

If I want to cross compile suitesparse through mingw, is there any tutorial or comment? Thanks.

Here is the error message: Could NOT find BLAS (missing: BLAS_LIBRARIES) Could NOT find BLAS (missing: BLAS_LIBRARIES) LAPACK requires BLAS A library with LAPACK API not found. Please specify library location. Configuring done

I have set the path to the folder which contains these:

but still has this issue.

I finish the Instructions part, and there is no problem. But when it comes to Test program part, I try to generate Visual Studio projects for spqr using provided CMakeLists.txt, I have the following error:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:27 (include): include called with wrong number of arguments. include() only takes one file.

I check the CMakeLists.txt, and can't find where the USE_SuiteSparse comes from. Then I just comment out some code like this:

LIST(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/../../cmakemodule/") # Add the directory where FindSuiteSparse.cmake module can be found.

set(SuiteSparse_USE_LAPACK_BLAS ON)
find_package(SuiteSparse QUIET NO_MODULE)  # 1st: Try to locate the *config.cmake file.
if(NOT SuiteSparse_FOUND)
        #set(SuiteSparse_VERBOSE ON)
        find_package(SuiteSparse REQUIRED) # 2nd: Use FindSuiteSparse.cmake module
        include_directories(${SuiteSparse_INCLUDE_DIRS})
else()
        # I comment out the following 2 lines of code using USE_SuiteSparse variable
        # message(STATUS "Find SuiteSparse : include(${USE_SuiteSparse})")
        # include(${USE_SuiteSparse})
endif()

Then, I can successfully generate the Visual Studio Solution and it seems to work.

So, I don't know whether my fix is the correct way and whether there is a bug in the CMakeLists.txt?

I followed your guide and created a project for msvs 2013. However, compiling gives an error in the cxsparse project.

error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '*

in cs.h for project cxsparse

Is this simply a suitesparse problem or someway related to the package? Anyone else has similar issues? I use version 4.2.1

Cheers

related Issues:

• https://github.com/jlblancoc/suitesparse-metis-for-windows/issues/85
• https://github.com/jlblancoc/suitesparse-metis-for-windows/issues/80
• https://github.com/jlblancoc/suitesparse-metis-for-windows/issues/87#issuecomment-481974332

could someone try those examples on Windows with Visual Studio? I have tested them on Linux

Also we still need to update the README.md Section 3. Integration in your code https://github.com/jlblancoc/suitesparse-metis-for-windows#3-integration-in-your-code-unique-code-for-windowslinux

mabye also add a list of the available SuiteSparse:: targets

	SuiteSparse::suitesparseconfig
	SuiteSparse::amd
	SuiteSparse::btf
	SuiteSparse::camd
	SuiteSparse::ccolamd
	SuiteSparse::colamd
	SuiteSparse::cholmod
	SuiteSparse::cxsparse
	SuiteSparse::klu
	SuiteSparse::ldl
	SuiteSparse::umfpack
	SuiteSparse::spqr
	SuiteSparse::metis

Hi Jose Luis Blanco,

First of all, thanks for creating this project!

When I build the project with BUILD_METIS on, everything builds fine. However if I build the example project "cholmod", a linking error shows "METIS_NodeComputeSeparator" cannot be found in any .lib file (I checked that all lib files were correctly linked). I believe this might be due to the reason that the METIS 5.1.0 do not have this function anymore. Maybe we should switch back to METIS 4?

Best, Chen

Hello, I use Windows 7 64 bits with Visual studio 2012.

I tried to compile suitesparse under windows with SHARED=ON. The build failed because lib/suitesparse_config.lib was not found. cmake clearly wants to build the shared libs, but it's still looking for statically linked libraries.

Best regards,

YC

Are there any updates that apply to this? I use windows 10. I get a lot of the following when building from Matlab R2018a with "Visual Studio 15 2017" :

....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_types.h(22): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'gk_idx_t' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_types.h(22): error C2059: syntax error: ';' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(24): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'ssize_t' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(24): error C2059: syntax error: '}' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(25): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'ssize_t' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(25): error C2059: syntax error: '}' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(26): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'ssize_t' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(26): error C2059: syntax error: '}' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(27): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'ssize_t' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(27): error C2059: syntax error: '}' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(28): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'ssize_t' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(28): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'val' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(28): error C2059: syntax error: ';' ....\metis-5.1.0\GKlib\gk_struct.h(28): error C2059: syntax error: '}'

Yet I can use make/cmake to create METIS.sln Visual Studio Project that I seem to be able to compile I also seem to have similar problems compiling directly from Cygwin. (Somewhere I saw a comment that this is untested).

Hi there, Firstly, thanks for maintaining this cmake repo - it's been really helpful in my domain of applications (especially with Ceres Solver)!

During my recent attempt to compile this code with CUDA support on Windows, I edited some bits that can lead to a successful build using MSVC 2015. By no means these are perfect but I was wondering if some of these may be applicable to others who want similar build conditions.

Looking forward to hearing back.

Best, John

I followed the example: https://gist.github.com/andr3wmac/78d294844484cb48342f88ef03e2776a The matrix is "nd6k: https://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/MM/ND/nd6k.tar.gz"

The program is finished regularly, but the summary shows that GPU is not called.

The summary is:

CHOLMOD GPU/CPU statistics: SYRK CPU calls 799 time 3.7243e+00 GPU calls 0 time 0.0000e+00 GEMM CPU calls 628 time 2.0252e+00 GPU calls 0 time 0.0000e+00 POTRF CPU calls 172 time 2.9389e+00 GPU calls 0 time 0.0000e+00 TRSM CPU calls 171 time 1.1470e+00 GPU calls 0 time 0.0000e+00

Thanks for maintaining this! It has made my life a lot easier. However, it would be nice to have better built-in support for building suitesparse with Intel's MKL.

This PR adds a new option: USE_MKL. When this is ON (Off by default), it will use the FindMKL.cmake module to find an installed version of MKL.

My cmake skills are not the best, so any suggestions for improvement are appreciated.

Thanks, Kyle