[OpenWalnut-Dev] Library Bindings OpenWalnut

[Sebastian Eichelbaum]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Alexander Wiebel wrote:

> Hi walnuts,
> 
> > I really don't like that, due to several reasons:
> 
> I agree.
> 
> > My proposal:
> >  * CUDA: leave it as it is by now, since we need a bigger, global support
> > anyway * LibOssim: replace it by LibEigen (SVD is possible and hence the
> > Moore-Penrose-Inverse)
> >  * LibEigen: make it a standard dependency since its, platform independent,
> > template library just depending on standard C++.
> 
> Sounds reasonable.
> 
> > So the only thing we must then decide if we all agree on that: put libEigen
> > into the source tree or not? Since its a header lib I could imagine that
> 
> I would do so.
> 
> > this would be possible, but libEigen also may take advantages of already
> > installed linear algebra packages as backends for example: make use of SSE
> > instruction sets if available on that machine, BLAS/LAPACK, MKL, Cholmod,
> 
> As these are optional and libEigen in the source tree would make all modules 
> compile everywhere (even if BLAS and similar are not installed) I recoomedn 
> putting libEigen in the tree.
> 
Although I am not a fan of this code inclusion idea in general, I would accept it for now. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex
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