Re: [Plplot-devel] The possibility of a new fortran interface based oncfortran.h

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

"Alan W. Irwin" wrote:
> 

> 
> This point is answered in part by the documentation which says the supported
> platforms are the following:
> 
> Alpha and VAX VMS, Alpha OSF, DECstation and VAX Ultrix, IBM RS/6000,
> Silicon Graphics, Sun, CRAY, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, Convex, Absoft, f2c,
> g77, NAG f90, PowerStation FORTRAN with Visual C++, NEC SX-4, Portland
> Group.
> 
> I noticed the Intel compiler is missing from this group, but when I googled
> for it and cfortran.h apparently there is a Debian patch to include support
> for this compiler.
> 
> Are there any other glaring omissions we should be concerned with?
> 

I have some experience with cfortran.h and Compaq Visual Fortran on
Windows (IIRC
you can get away with that by defining it to be the PowerStation
compiler). As that
is a very popular and well known compiler on the Windows platform, it
should not
be forgotten (even though it will be replaced on the long term by the
Intel 
compiler).

Other Fortran compilers that come to mind are: Lahey on Windows and
Lahey-Fujitsu
on Linux, as well as the F compiler - which is a free compiler that
works on a 
subset of Fortran 95. 

If we are going to revise the Fortran interface, then would it not be a
good
moment to include explicit support for Fortran 90/95, by defining a
module with
interfaces for PLplot? (I have done some groundwork but not tested it to
any
decent extent ...) Furthermore _I_ need to look into the Fortran
bindings for
Windows.

Regards,

Arjen