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Re: eigen3 support

 

Good news!
Thank you Anton.

Bruno

On 29/03/11 11:25, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Dear yade users and developers!
>
> A couple of weeks ago the mathematic library Eigen3 was released [1].
> Yade uses this library for the most of calculations.
>
> Eigen3 was almost completely rewritten from scratch, working faster
> [2] and (hopefully) more reliable.
>
> Since revision 2798 Yade supports Eigen3 entirely. If this math
> library persists in the system, it will be used for compilation,
> otherwise Eigen2 used.
> Ubuntu users can try to use Eigen3 easily, as packages for maverick,
> lucid and coming natty (do we need other systems too?) are ready on
> our ppa for external libraries [3]. Debian sid/wheezy will have Eigen3
> soon as well.
>
> To add a ppa to your system and install Eigen3, you just need to type
> in terminal:
>     sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yade-users/external
>     sudo apt-get update
>     sudo apt-get install libeigen3-d*
>
> After that you need to recompile your yade installation. If you need
> to get rid of Eigen3, just uninstall libeigen3-d*
> If you have a questions or problems with that, just let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> Anton
>
> [1] http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=3.0
> [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/yade-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg06659.html
> [3] https://launchpad.net/~yade-users/+archive/external
>
> Anton
>
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