Unresolved external symbol “for_realloc_lhs” at compilation

Question

I am trying to compile a SDK with pre-built Fortran libraries. The SDK requires Intel Fortran redistributables libraries parallel studio XE 2017. When trying to compile the SDK's example files, i get multiple errors:

From what i read, this could be caused by the SDK's fortran library being compiled with a version of the Intel's fortran compiler that is too old. ( see here ), however i do not own the SDK's fortran sources thus, i could not recompile them.

I would like to know if i am missing someting here or if the SDK's fortran library was imply built with the wrong tools.

[EDIT] i read what you said (thanks for your very clear explanation) and it seems my problem is really close to what you just explained, i seem to link against the 11.1 version of Intel redistributables. However, it seems that the library i got on Intel's website does not feature all the files the linker is looking for. (or at least i could not find them). There is the command visual studio used. Unfortunately, i am unable at the moment to produce the log, as it exceeds maximum message size.

Here is a summarized version of the log

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========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I would also like to mention that the directory in which the redistributables are supposed to be installed (as mentioned here : "redist[ia32|intel64]\\mpirt (for Fortran packages)") there is no library named libifcore... Actually, there is almost nothing that looks like anything that i need to link.) an image of the mentionned folder

Answer 1

First, a nit. The error is coming from the link step, not compiling. Contrary to your guess about the compiler version used for the library being "too old", instead it's the set of Intel libraries (redistributables) you're linking against that are too old (or missing?) If you are truly linking against the 2017-version libraries, that routine should be in libifcore. Double and triple check how you are doing the link and which libraries you name, if any, in the link step.

An easy way to see what's going on is to add the linker option /verbose to the link step. You haven't shown how you build the application and which command is used for linking. If you're using Visual Studio, set the project property Linker > General > Show Progress to "Display all progress messages". If using the ifort command, add at the end /link /verbose If using some other command, look at its documentation to see how you should specify link options. Capture the linker output (build log or whatever) - it will name each library it searches and which symbols come from where.

It may be as simple a matter as making sure you name the Intel libraries after the SDK libraries in the link step.

If this doesn't help, edit your question to add the commands you're using to link (compile doesn't matter) and show the actual output (do not summarize).