External Dependencies

Both GURLS and bGURLS are pure Matlab libraries with no specific external dependencies, other than the Statistics toolbox.

The two C++ libraries have the following dependencies.

GURLS++

• A Blas/Lapack implementation. Currently we support:
  • AMD’s ACML (only for 64 bits);
  • ATLAS;
  • Intel’s MKL;
  • Netlib’s reference implementation: http://www.netlib.org/blas and http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ ;
  • OpenBLAS (Currently only under Linux);

• Boost’s (v1.46.0 or higher) libraries serialization, date_time, filesystem, unit_test_framework, system, signals.

bGURLS++

In addition to the GURLS++ dependencies, bGURLS++ also depends on:

• An MPI implementation. BGURLS++ has been successfully tested with MPICH http://www.mpich.org/;
• Zlib http://www.mpich.org/;
• LibHDF5 v1.8.9 http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ compiled enabling parallel support and zlib (Libhdf5 v1.8.10 or higher is proved to not work properly);

Automatic Building of the Dependencies

The GURLS++/bGURLS++ CMake configurator suppports automatic downloading and building of all dependencies by setting the GURLS_USE_EXTERNALS variable to ON(See section Configuring GURLS++/bGURLS++ below for details).

Due to licence restrictions, on Windows this "superbuild" system does not permit to automatically install a blas/lapack implementation so users must install manually blas/lapack libraries.