Sage is supposed to be able to create compiled code using Cython. I have never been able to get this to work. The problem appears to be with my Sage installation, since compiling fails on the included example. I don’t believe I did anything special during installation, but apparently I something wrong. The Sage tutorial says
In order to make your own compiled Sage code, give the file an .spyx extension (instead of .sage). If you are working with the command-line interface, you can attach and load compiled code exactly like with interpreted code (at the moment, attaching and loading Cython code is not supported with the notebook interface). The actual compilation is done “behind the scenes” without your having to do anything explicit. See $SAGE_ROOT/examples/programming/sagex/factorial.spyx for an example of a compiled implementation of the factorial function that directly uses the GMP C library. To try this out for yourself, cd to $SAGE_ROOT/examples/programming/sagex/, then do the following:
sage: load "factorial.spyx"
When I try I get the following message:
Compiling ./factorial.spyx…
Error compiling cython file:
Error compiling ./factorial.spyx:
running build
running build_ext
building ‘_home_oliver_Desktop_sage_4_7_1_linux_32bit_ubuntu_10_04_lts_i686_Linux_examples_programming_sagex_factorial_spyx_0’ extension
creating build
creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.6
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/local/include/csage/ -I/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/local/include/ -I/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/local/include/python2.6/ -I/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/devel/sage/sage/ext/ -I/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/devel/sage/ -I/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/devel/sage/sage/gsl/ -I. -I/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/local/include/python2.6 -c _home_oliver_Desktop_sage_4_7_1_linux_32bit_ubuntu_10_04_lts_i686_Linux_examples_programming_sagex_factorial_spyx_0.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/_home_oliver_Desktop_sage_4_7_1_linux_32bit_ubuntu_10_04_lts_i686_Linux_examples_programming_sagex_factorial_spyx_0.o -w -O2
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.6
gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/_home_oliver_Desktop_sage_4_7_1_linux_32bit_ubuntu_10_04_lts_i686_Linux_examples_programming_sagex_factorial_spyx_0.o -L/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/local//lib/ -L/home/wstein/build/sage-4.7.1/local/lib -lmpfr -lgmp -lgmpxx -lstdc++ -lpari -lm -lcurvesntl -lg0nntl -ljcntl -lrankntl -lgsl -lgslcblas -latlas -lntl -lcsage -lpython2.6 -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/_home_oliver_Desktop_sage_4_7_1_linux_32bit_ubuntu_10_04_lts_i686_Linux_examples_programming_sagex_factorial_spyx_0.so -L/home/oliver/Desktop/sage-4.7.1-linux-32bit-ubuntu_10.04_lts-i686-Linux/local//lib/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1
Any suggestions? Thanks.
Per DSM’s comment, I reinstalled g++-multilib, and now everything works fine.