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Bug 1720 - Eigen leaves macro I defined
Summary: Eigen leaves macro I defined
Status: DECISIONNEEDED
Alias: None
Product: Eigen
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3 (current stable)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal Compilation Problem
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2019-05-31 11:41 UTC by Djordje Zivanovic
Modified: 2019-12-04 18:40 UTC (History)
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Description Djordje Zivanovic 2019-05-31 11:41:46 UTC
I have tried using LAPACK + BLAS + Eigen following the instructions https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicUsingBlasLapack.html . 
However, when I define EIGEN_USE_BLAS and EIGEN_USE_LAPACKE and have the following order in the first header file:

#include <boost/thread/barrier.hpp>
#include <Eigen/Dense>

the following compilation error appears:

In file included from /usr/include/c++/7/complex.h:36:0,
                 from /usr/local/include/Eigen/src/misc/lapacke.h:79,
                 from /usr/local/include/Eigen/LU:34,
                 from /usr/local/include/Eigen/Dense:2,
                 from xxx.h:4,
                 from xxx.cpp:5:

/usr/local/include/boost/type_traits/integral_constant.hpp:34:20: error: expected identifier before ‘(’ token
    template <class I, I val> struct integral_c;
                    ^
/usr/local/include/boost/type_traits/integral_constant.hpp:34:20: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘__extension__’
    template <class I, I val> struct integral_c;
                    ^
/usr/local/include/boost/type_traits/integral_constant.hpp:34:20: error: expected ‘>’ before ‘__extension__’
/usr/local/include/boost/type_traits/integral_constant.hpp:34:20: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘)’ token
    template <class I, I val> struct integral_c;

I tracked the origin of this compiler error and it is from 
#include <complex.h> that defines I. (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/complex.h)

I successfully circumvent the problem by adding #undef I after #include<Eigen/Dense>, but you should solve this problem for future releases of Eigen.
Comment 1 Christoph Hertzberg 2019-05-31 14:58:33 UTC
This seems to be rather a problem with `complex.h` and boost. AFAIK, Eigen itself completely avoids using `I` as an identifier.

OTOH, we probably don't break much, if we `#undef I`. Another (probably better) approach could be to add this before including lapacke.h (thus avoiding to include "complex.h"):

#ifndef lapack_complex_float
#define lapack_complex_float std::complex<float>
#endif
#ifndef lapack_complex_double 
#define lapack_complex_double std::complex<double>
#endif
Comment 2 Gael Guennebaud 2019-06-04 14:31:21 UTC
Defining lapack_complex_* seems to be fine, at leat for my setup.
Comment 3 Christoph Hertzberg 2019-06-05 08:42:38 UTC
Can we just modify lapacke.h? (It looks like something auto-generated by MKL)
Otherwise, we need to wrap this by another small header.
Comment 4 Nobody 2019-12-04 18:40:10 UTC
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