Cornelius C. Noack wrote:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Luigi Cataldi wrote:
Dear all,
I've just turn my back on Windows for Linux and I'm in trouble with my
best preferred software: PMX of course. G77 compiler isn't present in
my Fedora core 4 distribution and I wasn't able install it (a problem
with the gcc compiler version that I can't solve). So I used gfortran
compiler that comes with fedora distribution. I've followed the
instructions for this purpose and I have no compilation errors but
when I use the softwares I have 2 problems:
1. pmxab (2508) works fine as musixtex generator, but produces wrong
midi files
2. scor2prt (version 2501) doesent work with the following error
message:
At line 323 of file scor2prt.for
Fortran runtime error: Read past ENDFILE record
I am very inesperienced, I know, but there is a way to solve the
problem? It's possible that the question was discussing some time ago
... I'm sorry.
P.S. In a desperation moment I have found that windows PMX.EXE works
fine with Wine emulator!
Regards
Luigi
I think it is VERY IMPORTANT that we find out what's going on here,
because we SHOULD make an effort to get MusixTeX/PMX well established in
the LinuX world. This is particularly important since Luigi's
compilation ran. I've had decades of frustration with FORTRAN code
running seemingly OK with one FORTRAN version and causing havoc with
another ... That happens because every other computer
designer/programmer is disappointed with some feature(s) of FORTRAN and
decides to implement some neat code extensions/additions --- which, of
course, never turn out to be compatible. And the problem usually gets
worse with the FORTRAN-to-C converters which are what the Linux FORTRAN
'compilers' usually are.
So the first step is for both you, Luigi, and you, Don, to give us the
exact name/version of the FORTRAN code you are running.
Some years ago I tried the PMX FORTRAN source with my Salford FTN 77
FORTRAN compiler (which runs under Win32), and got so many compilation
errors that I got fed up with it and never bothered to find out what was
the matter. But now I would be willing to help; but it's hopeless for 1
person alone, especially if we don't stick to particular FORTRAN versions.
While we're waiting for an authoritative method for compiling pmx under
*nix I draw the attention to the compilation method I've outlined in my
MusiXTeX-for-unix HOWTO,
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixtex-for-unix.html#TOC22
I'm using fedora core 4 like Luigi and use to compile my pmx binaries as
described in this link.
For the conveniance of other Redhat users (and maybe also users of other
rpm based linuxen) I've uploaded an f2c rpm distribution to WIMA as
http://icking-music-archive.org/outgoing/f2c-19991109-2.i386.rpm. I've
also uploaded a copy of the simple shell script I use for compiling pmx,
http://icking-music-archive.org/outgoing/makef2cpmx.sh
--
Christian Mondrup, Sheet Music Editor
Werner Icking Music Archive
http://icking-music-archive.org/
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