Hi Alan, See my comments below
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 8:00 PM > To: Arjen Markus > Cc: John AUSTIN; plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Plplot-general] PLPLOT & Getting It To Work with Silverfrost > FTN95 > Fortran > > Hi Arjen and John: > > On 2017-03-21 09:58-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > Well, a quick search revealed: > > > > - CMake does not support Silverfrost out-of-the-box, at least I > > could not find > a module for it > > - Silverfrost FTN95 is limited to Fortran 95, so it will not support > > the current > binding > > @Arjen: > > For the record do you have a reference for that second result? I looked for > that > myself last night but could not find the definitive statement about what > versions of > Fortran were supported by FTN95. >>AM: I concluded this from this page - >>http://www.silverfrost.com/12/ftn95/ftn95_feature_details.aspx. There is no mention of any of the standards since Fortran 95 (F2003, F2008 and the upcoming F2015). The documentation on language features is pretty limited but there is also no hint of anything beyond F95. > > @John: > > Arjen has nicely summarized above the two hurdles to overcome before you could > use FTN95 (or any other Fortran compiler) to build the PLplot Fortran > bindings. > One is CMake support for FTN95 and the other is FTN95 support for Fortran > 2003. > Both of these are the responsibility of Silverfrost so I suggest you contact > them to > see what they say about their plans in these areas. Meanwhile, I suggest you > try a > better supported Fortran compiler such as ifort which _we know_ works fine to > build > the Fortran binding of PLplot. > > @Everybody here: > > Our experience is the PLplot Fortran binding and examples work fine with the > NAG > fortran compiler (nagfor), Intel Fortran compiler (ifort) and the Fortran > compiler > (gfortran) that is part of the gcc suite of compilers. But has anybody here > tried other > well-known Fortan compilers such as those from Absoft or the Portland Group? > My > understanding is CMake supports both the Absoft and Portland Group Fortran > compilers so the question really boils down to whether those compilers have > the > necessary support for Fortran 2003. > >>AM: I am pretty sure they do. The standards' support for a number of >>compilers is regularly compared by Ian Chivers and Jane Sleightholme for the >>ACM Fortran Forum and the 11 compilers they list all have full support for >>the F2003 C-Fortran interoperability, with even the further enhancements in >>one of the technical reports for many of them. Unfortunately Silverfrost >>FTN95 is not one of the 11 compilers. Regards, Arjen DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
