Well this is interesting. The linker can't find that because MPI::Datatype::Free isn't implemented on the Windows build (in datatype_inln.h). It's declared in datatype.h though. It's not there in the Linux version either, so I don't know where the Linux build is getting that symbol from, that link should fail too. Is the C++ version of OpenMPI actually broken overall?

The Windows support is another issue. I think it's semi-officially deprecated.

Damien

On 20/02/2013 11:20 PM, Hartman, Todd W. wrote:
I'm trying to build a simple Open MPI application for Windows. I've installed 
the binaries for OpenMPI-v1.6.2 (64-bit). I've also installed Visual Studio 
2010. The machine(s) are Windows 7 x64.


When I attempt to compile a simple program that uses MPI::Send(), I get a 
linker error saying that it cannot resolve MPI::Datatype::Free().

Here's a minimal example:

---------------------------------------------------
#include <mpi.h>
#include <iostream>
int main( int argc, char** argv ) {
     MPI::Init(argc,argv);

     // Meant to run with 2 processes.
     if (MPI::COMM_WORLD.Get_rank() == 0) {
         int data;
         MPI::COMM_WORLD.Recv(&data,1,MPI_INT,1,0);
         std::cout << "received " << data << std::endl;
     } else {
         int data = 0xdead;
         std::cout << "sending " << data << std::endl;
         MPI::COMM_WORLD.Send(&data,1,MPI_INT,0,0);
     }

     MPI::Finalize();
}
---------------------------------------------------

When I compile it:

mpic++ send_compile.cpp -o send_compile.exe -DOMPI_IMPORTS -DOPAL_IMPORTS 
-DORTE_IMPORTS


---------------------------------------------------
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.40219.01 for x64
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.




cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'o' has been deprecated and will be 
removed in a future release
send_compile.cpp
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 10.00.40219.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

/out:send_compile.exe
/out:send_compile.exe
"/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenMPI_v1.6.2-x64/lib"
libmpi_cxx.lib
libmpi.lib
libopen-pal.lib
libopen-rte.lib
advapi32.lib
Ws2_32.lib
shlwapi.lib
send_compile.obj
send_compile.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual void 
__cdecl MPI::Datatype::Free(void)" (?Free@Datatype@MPI@@UEAAXXZ)
send_compile.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
---------------------------------------------------

This program compiles and runs without complaint on an Ubuntu machine around 
here. I don't know what the problem is. Open MPI's documentation didn't say 
anything about adding the CPP defines (OMPI_IMPORTS, OPAL_IMPORTS, 
ORTE_IMPORTS) whose absence were causing other linker errors similar to this. 
Google found some items in the mailing list archive. I cannot find any 
information about this particular problem, though.

I tried using dumpbin to get symbols that were in the .lib files installed by 
MPI, but didn't find any reference to that function name. I didn't find any 
answers looking in the MPI headers, either.

I have a similar program in C that compiles and runs fine on this Windows 
machine. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with C++. Can someone point me in 
the right direction? Is there some documentation regarding getting things to 
work on Windows? The release notes don't address this problem, and I can't find 
any other documentation related to what might be different from *nix to Windows 
(WRT to Open MPI).

Thanks.


todd.

P.S. This is copied from a StackOverflow question I posted 
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14988099/open-mpi-c-link-error-mpidatatypefree-on-windows).
 Forgive the cross-posting.
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