How to build MPI libraries for 64-bit integers

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Before you continue please read the FAQ and verify whether you really need 64-bit integers.

It is extra work and perhaps not needed.

Open MPI with 64-bit integers

Please check the integer type of your currently available Open MPI installation (perhaps it can do 64-bit integers already).

For this, type

ompi_info -a | grep 'Fort integer size'

if the output is

Fort integer size: 8 

then you have a suitable 64-bit Open MPI installation which uses 64-bit integers by default.

If not and you decided that you want to build one yourself (not difficult), then download the latest stable source from http://www.open-mpi.org/ and extract it.

Then enter the directory and configure Open MPI (edit prefix path).

For Intel compilers use:

./configure --prefix=/path/to/openmpi CXX=icpc CC=icc F77=ifort FC=ifort FFLAGS=-i8 FCFLAGS=-i8 

For GNU compilers use:

./configure --prefix=/path/to/openmpi CXX=g++ CC=gcc F77=gfortran FC=gfortran \
                                      FFLAGS="-m64 -fdefault-integer-8"       \
                                      FCFLAGS="-m64 -fdefault-integer-8"      \
                                      CFLAGS=-m64                             \
                                      CXXFLAGS=-m64

If you want to add possibility for debugging with valgrind, please add these extra flags to configure:

 --enable-debug --enable-memchecker --with-valgrind(=/path/to/valgrind)

You get, however, slower performace, for more visit http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=debugging#memchecker_how.

Once the configure step is finished (lot of output, at the end there should be no error), build the library:

make all install

Finally export the path locations (adapt paths) in .bashrc (or in the corresponding file if you don't use bash):

export PATH=$PATH':/path/to/openmpi/intel/bin'
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH':/path/to/openmpi/intel/lib'

and verify the integer type:

ompi_info -a | grep 'Fort integer size'

if the output is

Fort integer size: 8

Then you are set. If it is different, then something went wrong. Please double-check and consult Open MPI documentation.