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 --
