 ADOL-C

This new version of ADOL-C features new library functions for

sparse Jacobians and sparse Hessians
external differentiated functions
optimal checkpointing
adapted differentiation of fixed point iterations
parallel differentiation of OpenMP-parallel loops
Lie derivatives of scalar, vector and covector fields

and many bug fixes.

Furthermore the source code was adapted to allow a compilation with WINDOWS compilers. See file "INSTALL" for generic installation instructions and special instructions for the installation on a WINDOWS platform.

The complete documentation can be found in the subdirectory "doc".

LOCAL INSTALLATION

Type autoreconf -fi
Run configure with possibly using one of these options:

--prefix=PREFIX install library and header files in PREFIX (default: ${HOME}/adolc_base)

--enable-sparse build sparse drivers [default=no]

--with-openmp-flag=FLAG use FLAG to enable OpenMP at compile time [default=none]

--enable-docexa build documented examples [default=no] --enable-addexa build additional examples [default=no] --enable-parexa build parallel example [default=no], if yes -with-openmp-flag=FLAG required

--with-cflags=FLAGS use CFLAGS=FLAGS (default: -g -O2) --with-cxxflags=FLAGS use CXXFLAGS=FLAGS (default: -g -02 -std=c++11)

--with-boost=BOOST_PATH path to the compiled boost library, otherwise the system one is chosen by default (if exists)

Type make
Type make install

By default, `make install' will install all the files in ${PREFIX}/lib and ${PREFIX}/include. You can specify another installation directory by using the --prefix-option in the configure call.

This procedure provides all makefiles required in the approporate directories. Execute 'configure --help' for more details on other available option.

Nonlocal installation

As mentioned in INSTALL one can configure the adolc package to be installed in a different directory than "${HOME}/adolc_base" by using the "--prefix=PATH" configure option. This is typically used for global installations. Common PATHs are "/usr" and "/usr/local/", and others are known to be used. Fine control over the installation directories can be gained by supplying additional configure options. See "./configure --help" for details.

Completing the installation by executing "make install" requires write permissions for all target directories. Make sure to have them or the result may be surprising otherwise.

A global installation can be helpfull if many users need the library. By adding the library's path to "/etc/ld.so.conf" the usage of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the "-L" link switch becomes unnecessary. In many cases, for instance for PATH=/usr/local, the use of the -I directive for compiling sources becomes unnecessary too.

Examples

Examples must be configured to build by using the configure switches --enable-docexa or --enable-addexa. They will never be installed by make install but can be found in the appropriate example subdirectory.

Windows Compilation with MINGW

Please refer to INSTALL

Windows Compilation with Visual Studio

Please refer to the file windows/Readme_VC++.txt for building the library and ADOL-C/examples/Readme_VC++.txt for the documented examples.

Unit tests

ADOL-C provides more than 400 unit tests to verify its basic functionality. For more information how to run the tests, please check the README file in ADOL-C/boost-test directory.

Enjoy this new version!