[Lazarus] Converting Fortran to FPC?

[C Western]

On 10/07/2010 02:32 PM, Gustavo Enrique Jimenez wrote:
> 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.
>

The mingw has a port of the GNU fortran compiler for windows, and I have 
linked fortran compiled with this with free pascal code. On linux the 
code produced by the GNU fortran compiler can also be linked with free 
pascal programs - I use the LAPACK library this way.

Colin