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External library support #17

Closed dc3315 closed 6 years ago

dc3315 commented 6 years ago

Hi,

Is it the case that we can use external libraries? For instance, in our case, we would like to use boost library, however, this requires it being installed on the machine the code is being run on, because we need to link against it.

Is it possible to ask for the library to be installed prior to running the tests?

Many thanks.

m8pple commented 6 years ago

I'm willing to put certain libraries in, but am a bit wary of adding too much as it can wipe out too much disk-space on the EC2 instances.

So boost seems reasonable, and I've had a request for CUDA too. So I will add the following to the base HPCE AMI:

sudo apt-get install libboost-dev
sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-dev

This has added significantly to the base install load (~8% of disk), so anything else needs to be small.

dc3315 commented 6 years ago

sudo apt-get install libboost-system1.55-dev sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem1.55-dev

? (please :D)

m8pple commented 6 years ago

Sorry, just noticed this.

I think the extra space is not too bad, so I can do that. I'm a bit mystified as to which, but I guess I'll find out.