| Re: how can i call a compiled fortran code from IDL? [message #33951 is a reply to message #33944] |
Thu, 06 February 2003 08:24   |
David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001
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James Kuyper (kuyper@saicmodis.com) writes:
> It's a naming convention issue, and the naming conventions are different
> on different platforms. On some platforms, an '_' is prepended, rather
> then appended, on some platforms, both will be needed.
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> If you have access to HDF, it provides a header "hdfi.h", containing a
> number of useful macros for encapsulating what the've learned about
> portable Fortran-C coding. FNAME(name) provides the C function name that
> will be callable as a Fortran function or subroutine called 'name'; it
> adds '_' whereever it's needed, if it's needed. In order to make a C
> function work as a Fortran function returning a specified type, you
> declared the return type as FRETVAL(type). It also defines a typedef
> named 'intf' for an integral C type that has the same representation as
> the Fortran INTEGER type.
Mads, do you see now why SPAWN is the solution of choice here? :-)
Cheers,
David
P.S. Let's just say learning FORTRAN is only the *start*
of your trouble. :-(
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David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
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