Hi 2010/10/6 Bo Berglund <[email protected]>: > I have a question that might be OT here, but I will try nevertheless: > > We have a Windows application written in Delphi for data analysis and > display. > It uses GLScene as the data rendering engine and it uses 3 Fortran > DLL:s to do the number crunching. > > I want to port the whole thing to Lazarus/FPC and I have seen that > GLScene is available for Lazarus (see separate thread). > So far it looks promising, but I also need to handle the three Fortran > DLL:s. > > They were made using an Intel Fortran compiler plugged into Visual > Studio several years back. The developer is no longer with us, but the > sources (and the Windows compiler are). > > So my question now is if there is any experience of either porting > Fortran code to FPC or of compiling Fortran code for a Windows DLL > into the corresponding function in Linux? > (By te way, is there such a thing as a DLL in Linux?) > > Any info on this greatly appreciated! >
There is an Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux, 30 days evaluation for free. You could try to recompile those DLLs. If the recompile works, it will generate a .so file instead of a .dll, wich is a shared object on Linux. Gustavo > > -- > Bo Berglund > Developer in Sweden > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
