Your attention is drawn to the terms and conditions of the Software Licence regarding the use of NAG software. Any request to use this software other than on the licensed computer must be referred to NAG, as should requests for information about the availability of other implementations.
This implementation is a compiled, tested, ready-to-use version of the NAG C Library that is considered suitable for operation on the computer systems detailed below:
hardware: 32 bit Intel systems and compatible operating system: Windows XP/2003 Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Release 8.0
This implementation was produced at NAG Ltd., Oxford on the computing system detailed below:
hardware: Dell Pentium 2 workstation operating system: Windows NT 4.0 C compiler: Microsoft Visual C/C++ Version 6.0 Linker: Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Release 8.0 on Windows XP compiler options: /MD /Gz /O2The compiler option /Gz means "compile using __stdcall calling convention", /MD means "use the (multithreaded) DLL version of the C run-time library" and /O2 is full optimisation.
The DLL files in this implementation were created using the Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Release 8.0 linker and C run time libraries on a Windows XP system. Hence these DLLs are linked with a version of MSVCRT.LIB that is an import library for MSVCR80.DLL.
An alternative DLL implementation, product code CLDLL074Z, is available which is compiled with the /MD option and linked with the version of MSVCRT.LIB distributed with Visual C++ 6.0, which is an import library for MSVCRT.DLL.
The NAG C Library, Mark 7, is provided in two versions.
The LAPACK functions ZHPEVD and ZUNMBR in MKL are not used, instead the NAG versions of the same functions are called by nagc-mkl.dll.
The nagc-mkl.dll version of the library has been tested with the mkl_def.dll MKL kernel.
|-- doc --|-- in.html
| |-- un.html
| |-- manual07
|
|-- bin --|-- nagc.dll
| |-- nagc-mkl.dll
|
|-- lib --|-- nagc*.lib
|
CLDLL074XL--|-- include --|-- *.h
|
| |-- source ---|-- *e.c
|-- examples --|-- data -----|-- *e.d
| |-- results --|-- *e.r
|
|-- batch -----|-- envvars.bat
| |-- nagex.bat
|
|-- mkl ------|-- bin ------|-- *.dll
|-- lib ------|-- *.lib
compiled libraries: 13.4 Mb include files: 1.2 Mb example program material: 3.1 Mb MKL 37.5 Mb PDF documentation files: 92.2 Mb
Normally the CD will autostart to begin installation; if it does not do so, perhaps because this option has been turned off on the user's system, then use Windows Explorer to locate and run the file setup.exe. InstallShield will lead you through the installation.
The installation procedure will set the system environment variables PATH, INCLUDE and LIB.
If it is planned to use Microsoft Visual Studio to build programs that use the NAG C Library, each user should set the appropriate options. From the Visual Studio "Tools" menu, select "Options" and expand the "Projects and Solutions" section and click the "VC++ Directories" entry. Using the "Show directories for" menu,
Installation of the library requires a licence key, which will be provided by NAG. This will either be a 'Trial' key, which will allow you to try out the library for a limited period of time, or a 'Fully Paid' key which enables use of the library indefinitely on a specific workstation. If you do not have a key, InstallShield will generate a file (usually saved as C:\CL_Licence_Request.txt), which may be E-mailed or faxed to NAG. In return NAG will send you a valid licence key.
Once in possession of a valid licence key begin the installation process again. You will be prompted for the licence key. Once this has been entered the process will continue.
Please note that if you are using Adobe Acrobat 4.0 or earlier you might experience some problems when printing documents that contain non-standard characters, such as integral signs, square roots and large brackets. These characters will print correctly using Adobe Acrobat 5.0.
The HTML form of the Essential Introduction contains some mathematical characters that are displayed as question marks by releases of Netscape earlier than 6, but these are displayed correctly by Netscape 6 and Internet Explorer. If this proves to be a probem, view the PDF document.
If using Netscape, it might be necessary to re-install Acrobat to ensure that the Acrobat plug-in has been installed. If the plug-in has not been installed, Netscape may copy PDF files to a temporary directory, and then not be able to navigate from there.
The following material should also be made accessible to users:
documentation files:
the doc\Manual07 directory contains the online documentation.
Compiled libraries:
lib\nagc-mkl.lib bin\nagc-mkl.dll mkl\lib\*.lib mkl\bin\*.dlland, as required,
lib\nagc.lib bin\nagc.dllInclude files:
include\*.hexample program material:
examples\source\*e.c examples\data\*e.d examples\results\*e.r batch\envvars.bat batch\nagex.bat
Note that the example material has been adapted, if necessary, from that published in the NAG C Library Manual, so that programs are suitable for execution with this implementation with no further changes (but see Section 4.4 for comments about possible differences in results obtained). Making the example material directly available to users provides them with easily adaptable templates for their own problems.
The "example programs" for the functions in the f06 chapter are not typical example programs and they are not in the Library Manual. They are test programs, which are supplied to sites for use in an installation test of the Library. Some of them take much longer to run than other example programs. Routines which are equivalent to BLAS are tested twice: once when called by their NAG f06 names, and once when called by their BLAS names.
Online documentation is bundled with this implementation. Please see Section 4.2.
The NAG Response Centres are available for general enquiries from all users and also for technical queries from sites with an annually licensed product or support service.
The Response Centres are open during office hours, but contact is possible by fax, email and phone (answering machine) at all times.
When contacting a Response Centre it helps us deal with your enquiry quickly if you can quote your NAG site reference and NAG product code (in this case CLDLL074XL).
The NAG websites provide information about implementation availability, descriptions of products, downloadable software, product documentation and technical reports. The NAG websites can be accessed at the following URLs:
http://www.nag.co.uk/, http://www.nag.com/ or http://www.nag-j.co.jp/
NAG Ltd Wilkinson House Jordan Hill Road OXFORD OX2 8DR NAG Ltd Response Centre United Kingdom email: support@nag.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 511245 Tel: +44 (0)1865 311744 Fax: +44 (0)1865 310139 Fax: +44 (0)1865 310139 NAG Inc 1431 Opus Place, Suite 220 Downers Grove IL 60515-1362 NAG Inc Response Center USA email: infodesk@nag.com Tel: +1 630 971 2337 Tel: +1 630 971 2345 Fax: +1 630 971 2706 Fax: +1 630 971 2706 Nihon NAG KK Hatchobori Frontier Building 2F 4-9-9 Hatchobori Chuo-ku Tokyo 104-0032 Japan email: help@nag-j.co.jp Tel: +81 (0)3 5542 6311 Fax: +81 (0)3 5542 6312