[GiNaC-list] GiNaC::marix::solve(..)

[Lisa Maletzki]

Zitat von Alexei Sheplyakov <varg at metalica.kh.ua>:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:17:59PM +0200, Lisa Maletzki wrote:
>
>> But the problem I have is, that I do not know how big my
>> matrix will be. In the smallest case it is a 18x18 matrix, so getting all
>> those symbols would be rather complicated, or am I just thinking that?
>
> You might want to use something like this:
>
> void generate_symbols(vector<symbol>& vars, const string& pattern)
> {
> 	for (unsigned i = 0; i < vars.size(); ++i) {
> 		std::ostringstream ostr;
> 		ostr << pattern << i;
> 		symbol tmp(ostr.str());
> 		vars[i] = tmp;
> 	}
> }
>
> unsigned n = 18;
> vector<symbol> vars(n);
> generate_symbols(vars, "x"); // populates vars with symbols "x0", "x1", etc.
> matrix A(n, n);
> // your code to fill it in
> matrix b(n, 1);
> // your code fill it in
>
> matrix x(n, 1);
> for (unsigned i = 0; i < n; ++i)
> 	x(i, 1) = xv[i];
>
> matrix result = A.solve(x, b);
>
> Also, be forewarned: using GiNaC for numerical computations (including
> solving linear systems with coefficients being floating-point numbers)
> incurs substantial overhead, so you'd better use some linear algebra
> software, such as GSL, ATLAS, etc.
>
> Best regards,
> 	Alexei
>
>

Thanks again, I think that will do the trick but when compiling it I  
get a linker error which I cannot solve (I'm fairly new to c++) I  
can't say if it is just missing a library of if I wrote something in  
the code wrong.

This is the output:

g++ -Xlinker `pkg-config --cflags --libs ginac` -o"sep"   
./src/bezierPoints.o ./src/testmain.o ./src/xml.o ./src/xmlParser.o
./src/bezierPoints.o: In function `bezierPoints::solve(GiNaC::matrix, int)':
/my_folder/Debug/../src/bezierPoints.cpp:63: undefined reference to  
`bezierPoints::generate_symbols(std::vector<GiNaC::symbol,  
std::allocator<GiNaC::symbol> >&, std::basic_string<char,  
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'

The method is declared in the header file and called with the write  
name in the source file, so typing error can be ruled out. Any help?

Kind regards,

Lisa