Re: Intel Fortran 8.1 and MS VC++ 2003

From: Lynn McGuire (NOSPAM.winsim_at_NOSPAM.winsim.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:56:37 -0500

> Yes and no. We have a simulation that mixes C++ and Fortran (most of the
> code is Fortran).

Me too. Our app is 10,000 lines of c code and 400,000 lines of f77 code.
We currently use Watcom C/F77 but I am having a floating point signal
problem.

> I believe that you cannot mix *.f files and *.cpp files in the same project
> with VS.NET 2003 (unlike VS 6.0). Instead, you must make a library
> containing just the C++ code and link that library into the Fortran project.
> I guess it could work the other way as well - compile all of the *.f code
> into a library and link that library into a C++ project.

I was afraid of this. Yuck.

> Of course, even after doing this, our code did not execute properly. We
> cannot determine if it is a memory leak (high possibility) or if the mixed
> language programming in VS.NET 2003 still has problems. The debugger in
> VS.NET is not proving to be very useful. At the moment, CVF 6.6C with VS
> 6.0 is still our most robust development environment.

I have both of these and I may try this instead.

Thanks,
Lynn

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