On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 1:15 PM Larry Lemons via Fortran
<fortran@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Please read https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/fortran/2010-04/msg00314.html
for about DFPORT and gfortran.

For DFLIB, you might need to re-implement some of it. It looks like it
was Windows only even.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski


>
> So any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Larry M. Lemons
> Sr. Software Developer

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