Re: [Plplot-general] f95-support

[Valery P. <pi...@is...>]

> Good.  That makes four (actually probably five) platforms where gfortran is
> working.
I've successfully   compiled plplot with f95 bindings on kubuntu-dapper which 
has  gfortran-4.0.1 currently.
> > The common blocks is obsolete in F90-95. I would recommend to  use
> > "USE" .
>
> Noted, but not implemented yet.  I would like to change this whole area of
> the API to use proper callbacks (where the API of the function or
> subroutine name being passed as an argument of the library routine is fully
> specified). Is this C-like approach available in fortran 95 (perhaps with
> the interface statement)?  
This is  a kind of hard question to  me because I've never  used  interface 
statements  in my practice.   
>
> > This experiment was on altlinux where we have gfortran-4.1.  I shall
> > check my dapper part this afternoon.
> >
> > For intel fortran I've get the linkage error:
> > /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link ifort -I. -O3   -o
>
> ....
>
> I don't want to discourage you; your experiments with ifort may eventually
> pay off.
> However, from what I have heard from the libtool experts, we are 
> limited to just gfortran for now because libtool is not yet ready for full
> fortran 9x support.  Once libtool is improved in this respect (hopefully
> within a few months from now), then the plplot fortran 95 interface should
> be able to support commercial fortran compilers such as ifort, pgf90, and
> the absoft fortran compiler.
Yes that's a way,

best regards
Valery