David Gleich's Notebook

Update: Someone actually linked to them!  They wrote a much better guide! Using ARPAC with Visual Studio (under XP)

I made these notes a while back, and thought I'd actually put them on the web. 

1. Install MinGW and make sure to include the gcc/g77 and make utilities.
2. Edit ARmake.inc and change the following lines:

   FC = g77
   FFLAGS = -O2 -mno-cygwin
   LDFLAGS =
   CD = cd
   LN = ln
   LNFLAGS = -s
   MAKE = /bin/make
   RM = rm
   RMFLAGS = -f
   SHELL = /bin/sh

3. Compile ARPACK.
4. Run:
   

   dllwrap --export-all-symbols -mno-cygwin --output-def arpack_win32.def -o arpack_win32.dll BLAS/*.o LAPACK/*.o UTIL/*.o SRC/*.o -lg2c

   
   
5. Using lib.exe in Visual Studio:
   

   lib /machine:i386 /def:arpack_win32.def

   
   
6. Link your code against your new arpack_win32.lib file!