Re: [Plplot-general] Compiling against the Fortran77 libraries in PLPlot 5.10.0

[David V. <dve...@gm...>]

Thanks, Arjen.


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Arjen Markus <Arj...@de...>wrote:

>  Hi David,
>
>
>
> I do not know how the libraries are distributed in Ubuntu, but if only the
> shared versions are distributed, that will be a very deliberate choice of
> the distributors. Even though the shared libraries get exercised more, you
> should be able to build them yourself.
>
>
>
> As for the difference between the F77 and F95 bindings:
>
> -        First of all, inserting a “use plplot” statement will allow the
> compiler to “see” the interface definitions.
>
> -        This is necessary for it to insert the right internal names of
> the routines (otherwise the linker will complain)
>
> -        But more importantly, the compiler will be able to check the
> argument lists of the routines. Arguments that have changed between F77 and
> F95 are things like the number of elements in an array. In F95
> introspection is possible and that avoids many mistakes. It does mean some
> incompatibility unfortunately.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Arjen
>
>
>
> *From:* David Ventimiglia [mailto:dve...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 18, 2014 1:55 PM
> *To:* Moez Kilani
> *Cc:* plplot_general
> *Subject:* Re: [Plplot-general] Compiling against the Fortran77 libraries
> in PLPlot 5.10.0
>
>
>
> Thanks, Alan and Moez.
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Moez Kilani <moe...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> I also liked the fortran77 bindings. For the F95 bindings, I have posted
> an example on my web page :
>
> http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mkilani/other/other.html
>
> hope it helps (notice lines 2, 42-51) !
>
> Best
>
>
>
> 2014-05-18 3:44 GMT+02:00 David Ventimiglia <dve...@gm...>:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> How do I compile Fortran77 programs against PLPlot now that the Fortran77
> libraries have finally been removed from libplplot-dev (I'm on Ubuntu, so
> this is a Debian style package)?  On my system I also see that there now is
> a libplplot-fortran11 package whose description says:
>
>
>
> This package contains the Fortran 77 and Fortran 95 bindings for
> PLplot. Note: the Fortran 77 bindings have been deprecated in the latest
> version of PLplot, and will be dropped from a future release. New code
> should use the Fortran 95 bindings.
>
>
>
> But, within it there are only shared-object libraries and no longer any
> static libraries, which were very convenient.  Further, where are the
> actually Fortran77 libraries?  The .so files here all are labelled with
> f95, and they seem to contain Fortran95 style symbols and don't contain
> Fortran77 symbols.  Have the Fortran77 libraries actually been completely
> purged?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
>
> David
>
>
>
>
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