GNU Scientific Library

[jj2007]

I am testing if there is a n00b-friendly way of installing & using the GSL. The attached proggie will show a MsgBox saying gsl_INIT error, and if you click OK, shortly after you should see another box Success: Bessel function etc...

Grateful for some tests - AV problems etc 8)

[hutch--]

Same result here, could not find the lib, downloaded in from Sourceforge.

[TWell]

gsl-1.15-dev-win32 here
gsl-1.15-dev-win64 here

[jj2007]

Same result here, could not find the lib, downloaded in from Sourceforge.

And it worked then and showed the Bessel value, I hope?

@Tim: Thanks for the link, looks like the latest version. Much bigger, of course, and I wonder what kind of setup problems that means - XP compatible, for example? ::)

Btw what was the name of the tool in \Masm32\bin\*.exe that allowed to extract all exports from a DLL?

[hutch--]

JJ,

Clive's "dumppe".

Command line.

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\masm32\bin\dumppe -disasm yourdll.dll > lst.txt


[GoneFishing]

or you may try this

LINK /DUMP /EXPORTS YOUR.DLL

or this

DUMPBIN /EXPORTS YOUR.DLL

There's one excellent  tool set : http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php

P.S.: GSL is well documented : GNU Scientific Library – Reference Manual

[jj2007]

@Hutch: That produces a 25 MB listing, not a list of exports

@GoneFishing: Both commands work fine, and produce practically the same output

In the meantime, I found my own routine, see attachment, which produces a plain listing.
Usage: GetDllExports YourDll.dll
With e.g. getdllexports C:\Windows\System32\msvcr*.dll you can get an idea what the differences between these DLLs are.

Re GSL, the *blas versions are identical but the main lib has been somewhat expanded:
1.8 -> 6.7 MB
3695 -> 4173 functions

Will reflect whether to switch to the new one or not... fight the bloat  8)

P.S.: GSL is well documented : GNU Scientific Library – Reference Manual

Indeed :t

Currently, in the MasmBasic manual I point to another site:

include \masm32\MasmBasic\MasmBasic.inc      ; download
; libgsl.dll download: open Binaries zip, and extract libgsl.dll and libgslcblas.dll to \masm32\MasmBasic\GnuScLib\DLL
; define the gsl function(s) you want to use with the syntax of the GNU Scientific Library Reference
gslvar      int gsl_rng_default()
gsl      double gsl_stats_mean (const double data[], size_t stride, size_t n)
gsl      double gsl_stats_variance (const double data[], size_t stride, size_t n)
gsl      double gsl_stats_sd (const double data[], size_t stride, size_t n)
... etc ...

The two pages look almost identical (one has a horizontal line, the other doesn't ::)). Again I will have to test which version works better.

[hutch--]

JJ,

Just open the file in a text editor, you get the PE header then all imports and exports.

[jj2007]

Just open the file in a text editor, you get the PE header then all imports and exports.

Sure. This is what I wanted (my tool, 108kB):

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_gsl_sf_bessel_amp_phase_bm0_cs
_gsl_sf_bessel_amp_phase_bm1_cs
_gsl_sf_bessel_amp_phase_bth0_cs
_gsl_sf_bessel_amp_phase_bth1_cs
gsl_acosh
gsl_asinh
gsl_atanh
...

This is what you get from dumppe (50MB, scroll down a little bit to find gsl_acosh):

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libgsl-0.dll                       (hex)           (dec)

.EXE size (bytes)                    490            1168
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Relocation entries                     0               0

Portable Executable starts at                 80
Signature                               00004550 (PE)
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Exp Addr Hint   Ord Export Name by libgsl-0.dll - Mon Oct 31 17:19:09 2011
-------- ---- ----- ---------------------------------------------------------
0012B04C    0     1 GSL_MAX_DBL
0012B02C    1     2 GSL_MAX_INT
0012B084    2     3 GSL_MAX_LDBL
0012B068    3     4 GSL_MIN_DBL
0012B03C    4     5 GSL_MIN_INT
0012B0A0    5     6 GSL_MIN_LDBL
0012B0F4    6     7 GSL_MODE_PREC
00177E40    7     8 _gsl_sf_bessel_amp_phase_bm0_cs
00177E00    8     9 _gsl_sf_bessel_amp_phase_bm1_cs
00177E20    9    10 _gsl_sf_bessel_amp_phase_bth0_cs
00177DE0    A    11 _gsl_sf_bessel_amp_phase_bth1_cs
0012B338    B    12 gsl_acosh
0012B438    C    13 gsl_asinh
0012B59C    D    14 gsl_atanh
;)

[TWell]

In this forum many things are done in hard way (stupid).
I have seen easy way to do things in PellesC forum.

[dedndave]

we appreciate your vote of confidence, Tim - lol

although, it makes me wonder why you are here

[rrr314159]

In this forum many things are done in hard way (stupid).

- reminds me of my favorite (slightly risque) bumper sticker,

"Assembly programmers do it the hard way"

Perhaps it should have a coda, "... because they're stupid!" That's a good idea, women (I've noticed) find stupidity very attractive

[TWell]

To learn something from experts, like you.
And what's wrong to use program like this: http://vortex.masmcode.com/files/dll2defV11.zip

[hutch--]

 

JJ,

If you don't want the disassembly, don't add the command line option "-disasm".

[jj2007]

gsl-1.15-dev-win32 here

Thanks for the hint, Tim. I've made it the new default in MasmBasic version 11 October. You can override it with gsl_OldVersion=1.

In this forum many things are done in hard way (stupid).
I have seen easy way to do things in PellesC forum.

That is an interesting observation. Of course, we are struggling to make things easier:
2.1 An Example Program (from the GSL manual)

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The following short program demonstrates the use of the library by computing the value of the Bessel function J_0(x) for x=5,

#include <stdio.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_sf_bessel.h>

int
main (void)
{
  double x = 5.0;
  double y = gsl_sf_bessel_J0 (x);
  printf ("J0(%g) = %.18e\n", x, y);
  return 0;
}

The output is shown below, and should be correct to double-precision accuracy,2

J0(5) = -1.775967713143382920e-01

The steps needed to compile this program are described in the following sections.

( etc etc ... there it gets complicated ...)

Now the MasmBasic equivalent:

include \masm32\MasmBasic\MasmBasic.inc      ; download
  gsl double gsl_sf_bessel_J0 (double x)     ; double x means a pointer to a REAL8 is required
  Init
  Print Str$("Bessel function for a value of 5 = %Jf\n", gsl_sf_bessel_J0(FP8(5.0)))
EndOfCode

Output:
Bessel function for a value of 5 = -0.1775967713143382920

Compiling instructions see Masm32: What you absolutely must know to get started, including step 6

So what would you suggest to make it less hard?

Just for fun, another example - a graphical representation of a Bessel function:

GuiParas equ "Bessel function", x20, y20, w1200, h700
include \masm32\MasmBasic\Res\MbGui.asm
  gsl double gsl_sf_bessel_J0(double x)   ; see GSL manual
  SetGlobals fct:REAL8
  gsl_INIT
  Dim Bessel1() As REAL8
  xor ecx, ecx            ; array index
  For_ fct=-10.0 To 40.0 Step 0.05
      SetFloat Bessel1(ecx)=gsl_sf_bessel_J0(fct)
      inc ecx
  Next
Event Paint
  ArrayPlot hWnd, RgbCol(20, 255, 240)      ; define canvas and background colour
  ArrayPlot Bessel1()
  ArrayPlot exit, "GSL: Regular cylindrical Bessel function of zeroth order"
GuiEnd