Hello,

I inherited a project where the customer wants us to re-build this ForTran 
application with a more modern compiler.  I did some research and found that 
the GCC compiler probably has the most up to date compiler available, so we 
decided to us 13.1.0 version of GCC.  It has been about 40 years since I last 
used Fortran, and very little at that time, and I didn't realize that there 
were different libraries available based upon which compiler that was used at 
the time.  Apparently, from what I can tell from the research that I've done, 
is it was last built using a MicroSoft compiler because of two of the libraries 
that are used.  From what I've read, Compaq had the compiler for a time and now 
Intel has it.

Anyway, since I was not the person who originally worked on this code, I am not 
sure what functionality from the two libraries are being used, so I would like 
to find the one or more libraries that are equivalent to the libraries that are 
being used from the Intel libraries.  From what I understand, the libraries 
have been split up into more than one library since Intel took it over, but all 
that I know is that the two libraries in question are DFPORT and DFLIB.

Can someone help me find the equivalent libraries in GCC that replace all of 
the functionality in DFPORT and DFLIB or point me in a direction where I can 
find this information?  I've been trying to find it for the last 3 weeks and 
have found a lot of things, but nothing I can use or that works.  I've tried, 
unsuccessfully, to use the Intel libraries, as well as trying to rebuild them.  
If there aren't any equivalent libraries then I may need to work on getting the 
Intel compiler added to the software list, which will take another month or 
more.

So any help would be very much appreciated.

Thank you,

Larry M. Lemons
Sr. Software Developer

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