I don't know if f2c meets your needs, but it has always worked. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:07 AM, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:38:30 +0000, C H Forsyth wrote: >> >> it's not just the FORTRAN but supporting libraries, sometimes large ones, >> including ones in C++, are often required as well. i'd concluded that >> cross-compilation was currently the only effective route. >> i hadn't investigated whether something like linuxemu could be >> used (or extended easily enough) to allow cross-compilation within >> the plan 9 environment. >> >> i have found a few exceptions written in plain, reasonably portable >> C, good for my purposes, >> but not characteristic of scientific applications in general. > > Agreed, and then there is the Netlib Java numerical analysis code -- That > one gave be indigestion... > > One of the biggest problems is that no one wants rewrite linpack, blas, > etc., not that it has been polished within an inch of the developers lives. > > As for FORTRAN, I thought about looking into the old f2c, and see how that > worked for getting some FORTRAN compiled in Plan 9 as a demonstration. I'll > think about linuxemu in this context. > > EBo -- > > >
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