RE: [Dev-C++] Mixed Language Programming w/Dev-Cpp

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

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> From: dev...@li...=20
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf=20
> Of Scott Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:34 PM
> To: Dev-Cpp-Users@Lists. Sourceforge. Net
> Subject: [Dev-C++] Mixed Language Programming w/Dev-Cpp
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> Hi,
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> Wondering if anyone has experience with mixed language programming and
> whether it can be done with Dev-Cpp?
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> In particular, I'm writing a mathematical simulation in C=20
> (using Dev-Cpp)
> and would like to make using of some existing numerical=20
> routines in Fortran.
> My C knowledge is necessity-based self-taught and so limited;=20
> don't know
> anything about Fortran.  Neither do I know much about using
> compilers/linkers/etc in command line mode (which is why I=20
> use Dev-Cpp--I
> let it worry about that stuff).
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> Still, I know that built-in to the gcc interface is the g77=20
> compiler so
> there must be a way to compile the fortran source to an=20
> object with g77 and
> then link to & call the routines from C.  Could it be as=20
> simple as added
> fortran source files to my Dev-Cpp project?  If so, any=20
> thoughts on how to
> prototype the Fortran functions & subfunctions to make them=20
> accessible to
> the C calling routines?


Well if you download the whole MINGW distribution it contains a Fortran
compiler. In theory as i can think of it, if you compile your fortran
source code files to .o files and use C-style declarations of those
functions in your C source code, you should be able to use them.


Ioannis

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