[ADMB Users] How to use Autodif as a regular external C++ library?

[Pedro Tabacof]

First of all I must say that never before have I received so much help in
so little time, this is just unbelievable as a computer engineer :)

I finally managed to compile the first example given in Autodif manual
following your suggestions. As Dave said, I used the same flags the admb
console program uses, and as John remarked, I put them in exactly the same
order.

In the end I was using the correct libraries but in a kinda random order,
and I was also eliminating duplicates (I wrongly thought they were
meaningless).

As a reference for future users, I'm using MinGW 32 through Windows 7
Eclipse and my code is left as an attachment.

Thanks again,
Pedro.

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:17 PM, John Sibert <sibert at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> I generally use make to compile and link AUTODIF applications. Here are
> examples of compiler and linker flags that are used in a linux environment.
> There are some application specific settings so, I  have also included
> simplified versions below the ------------
>
> # make with "optimized" library without subscript checking
> CFLAGS= -m64 -DTRUE=true -DFALSE=false -DVERCONS=1 -D__GNUDOS__ -DOPT_LIB
> -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -I${ADMB_HOME}/include -I${JNIGRAPHICS_PATH}
> -I$(JAVA_HOME)/include -I$(JAVA_HOME)/include/linux -I/usr/include/libxml2
> $(INCPATH)
>
> LFLAGS= -L${JNIGRAPHICS_PATH} -L$(JAVA_HOME)/jre/lib/amd64/**server
> -L${ADMB_HOME}/lib -ljnigraphics3 -ldf1b2o -ladmod -ladt -lado -ldf1b2o
> -ladmod -ladt -lads -lstdc++ -lm -lado -ladt -ldl -ljvm -lxml2
> -L/usr/share/pvm3/lib/LINUX64
>
> # make with safe library for subscript checking
> CFLAGS= -m64 -ggdb -DTRUE=true -DFALSE=false -DVERCONS=1 -D__GNUDOS__
> -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -I${ADMB_HOME}/include -I${JNIGRAPHICS_PATH}
> -I$(JAVA_HOME)/include -I$(JAVA_HOME)/include/linux -I/usr/include/libxml2
> $(INCPATH)
>
> LFLAGS= -ggdb -L${JNIGRAPHICS_PATH} -L$(JAVA_HOME)/jre/lib/amd64/**server
> -L${ADMB_HOME}/lib -ljnigraphics3 -ldf1b2s -ladmod -ladt -lads -ldf1b2s
> -ladmod -ladt -lads -lstdc++ -lm -lads -ladt -ldl -ljvm -lxml2
> -L/usr/share/pvm3/lib/LINUX64
>
> ------------------
>
> #make with "optimized" library without subscript checking
> CFLAGS= -D__GNUDOS__ -DOPT_LIB -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated
> -I${ADMB_HOME}/include
>
> LFLAGS= -L${ADMB_HOME}/lib -ldf1b2o -ladmod -ladt -lado -ldf1b2o -ladmod
> -ladt -lads -lstdc++ -lm -lado -ladt
>
> # make with safe library for subscript checking and symbolic debugging
> CFLAGS= -ggdb -D__GNUDOS__ -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated
> -I${ADMB_HOME}/include
>
> LFLAGS= -ggdb -L${ADMB_HOME}/lib -ldf1b2s -ladmod -ladt -lads -ldf1b2s
> -ladmod -ladt -lads -lstdc++ -lm -lads
>
> -------------------------
>
> So (at least for this 3 year-old) example, the libraries you need are
> libadmod.a libadt.a libado.a (or libads.a) for the safe libraries. Note the
> order is important and they need to be linked twice (not sure why). Also,
> it appears that some the ADModel Builder libraries (libdf1b2o.a and
> libadmod.a) may be required to satisfy some references. Since these
> librararies are included in the ADMB distributions, there is no real
> downside to linking them into the application anyhow).
>
> Please let us know how you make out.
>
> John Sibert
> Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
> University of Hawaii at Manoa
>
> Visit the ADMB project http://admb-project.org/
>
>
> On 11/03/2012 03:46 AM, Pedro Tabacof wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been searching for automatic differentiation tools and I found
>> ADMB's Autodif to be quite what I needed. However, I've been having some
>> problems regarding its use from a regular C++ application.
>>
>> All the step-by-step manuals on the website show how to use the command
>> prompt program "admb" (which tested just fine here), but I wanna use
>> Autodif inside a large C++ project, a little bit like its manual shows, by
>> including headers (in this case fvar.hpp) to the source code and using the
>> corresponding classes for automatic differentiation (such as dvector).
>>
>> The problem is that the compiler complains (rightly so) that all the
>> classes declared by fvar.hpp are undefined references. There are many
>> libraries that come with ADMB, so how am I supposed to know which ones are
>> required by Autodif classes? Is there any manual or guide that may shine a
>> light on this? Is it even possible to do what I'm attempting to do?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Pedro Tabacof,
>> State University of Campinas, Brazil.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pedro Tabacof,
>> Unicamp - Eng. de Computação 08.
>>
>>
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>
>


-- 
Pedro Tabacof,
Unicamp - Eng. de Computação 08.
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