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Call_external [message #9225] Thu, 05 June 1997 00:00
Harald Frey is currently offline  Harald Frey
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Registered: March 1997
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I have changed from VMS to UNIX and now I got a problem with
call_external and
I'm not sure if it is an IDL or a UNIX problem. I work under
{ sparc sunos unix 4.0.1c}.

The FORTRAN program example.f according to the User's Guide 18-14

C --------------------------
subroutine sum_array(array,n,sum)

integer*4 n
real*4 array(n),sum

sum=0.0
do i=1,n
sum=sum+ array(i)
print*, sum, array(i)
enddo

return
end
C --------------------------

And the IDL program test_call.pro

; -------------------------
pro test_call

x=findgen(10)
s=call_external('example.so','_sum_array_',x,n_elements(x),/ f_value)

end
; ------------------------

Compiling the FORTRAN program with (User's Guide 18-21)

f77 -c -pic example.f
ld -o example.so example.o

Gives the error message

% ld -o example.so example.o
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
__e_wsle example.o
__s_wsle_nv example.o
__do_l_out example.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to example.so

Trying
ld -G -o example.so example.o

compiles without error message but then in IDL I get

IDL>.r test_call
IDL> test_call
% CALL_EXTERNAL: Error loading sharable executable.
Symbol: _sum_array_, File = example.so
ld.so.1: /usr/local/idl/bin/bin.solaris2/idl: fatal:
dlsym:
can't find symbol: _sum_array_
% Execution halted at: TEST_CALL 4 test_call.pro
% $MAIN$

Where is the problem?

Harald Frey
Space Sciences Laboratory
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu
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