[Lazarus] Converting Fortran to FPC?

[Gustavo Enrique Jimenez]

Hi

2010/10/6 Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com>:
> I have a question that might be OT here, but I will try nevertheless:
>
> We have a Windows application written in Delphi for data analysis and
> display.
> It uses GLScene as the data rendering engine and it uses 3 Fortran
> DLL:s to do the number crunching.
>
> I want to port the whole thing to Lazarus/FPC and I have seen that
> GLScene is available for Lazarus (see separate thread).
> So far it looks promising, but I also need to handle the three Fortran
> DLL:s.
>
> They were made using an Intel Fortran compiler plugged into Visual
> Studio several years back. The developer is no longer with us, but the
> sources (and the Windows compiler are).
>
> So my question now is if there is any experience of either porting
> Fortran code to FPC or of compiling Fortran code for a Windows DLL
> into the corresponding function in Linux?
> (By te way, is there such a thing as a DLL in Linux?)
>
> Any info on this greatly appreciated!
>

There is an Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux, 30 days evaluation for
free. You could try to recompile those DLLs. If the recompile works,
it will generate a .so file instead of a .dll, wich is a shared object
on Linux.

Gustavo


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