Matlabblas-src
Source crate for the BLAS and LAPACK libraries provided with matlab. To be used with the BLAS crates on crates.io.
Installation and recommendations
This crate is an empty library; the only think it does is say that it links to another external library.
Normally, to use BLAS, you would something akin to the following in your Cargo.toml
file.
= "0.4.0"
= { = "0.8", = false, = ["cblas", "static"], = true }
As with all the BLAS
family of crates, you use a binding/wrapper crate to program against
(which pulls in a sys
crate which provides the actual library symbols), and select a
backend, which provides the implementation (in the above example, that would be
openblas
).
Instead, iff you are compiling a mex
file (for example with
rustmex
), and would like to use BLAS, this crate is
for you. Instead of linking to another BLAS backend, you can use this crate to link to
the one Matlab itself provides
(and uses). This crate thus takes the place of a src
crate in BLAS
's architecture.
This comes with some extra complexity, however. The onus is on you to provide the correct
paths to rustc
. Specifically, you have to set the library search path and the library
names to use in your config.toml
file:
[<triple>.mex]
= ["~/bin/R2022a/bin/glnxa64"]
= ["mwblas", "mwlapack"]
Substitute <triple>
with the triple you are compiling for (the "host" field of the
output of rustc -vV
). Matlab will print the appropriate search path when you run
fullfile(matlabroot(), 'bin', computer('arch'))
in your Matlab prompt.