[Plplot-devel] First little success with Compaq Visual Fortran and CBS

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

Hello,

I just succeeded in creating a single Fortran example with our
CBS, using Compaq Visual Fortran and MicroSoft Visual C/C++ under Windows.

All is not smooth yet:
1 The combination CVF-MSVC may require a unique macro
  (mixed-language features are sometimes specific to the two
  compilers you use)
2 I had to resort to static libraries (otherwise I would have
  had to solve the mysteries of exported routines using CVF,
  not too difficult, but still)
3 I had to fiddle with a linker option (/force to force the
  linker to ignore doubly defined symbols)

1) may in retrospect be a red herring - it is mainly the
C compiler that is to be tamed.

2) is simply hard labour - add a compiler directive in the
right places.

3) is probably not needed once I get shared libraries to work.

Anyway, I wanted to let you all know about this small, but,
to me, significant hurdle!

Regards,

Arjen