From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8f46b210f655183b56d52e5737ace865@swcp.com> References: <8f46b210f655183b56d52e5737ace865@swcp.com> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:49:52 -0300 Message-ID: From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely Topicbox-Message-UUID: abc62354-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I don't know if f2c meets your needs, but it has always worked. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:07 AM, EBo wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:38:30 +0000, C H Forsyth wrote: >> >> it's not just the FORTRAN but supporting libraries, sometimes large ones= , >> including ones in C++, are often required as well. i'd concluded that >> cross-compilation was currently the only effective route. >> i hadn't investigated whether something like linuxemu could be >> used (or extended easily enough) to allow cross-compilation within >> the plan 9 environment. >> >> i have found a few exceptions written in plain, reasonably portable >> C, good for my purposes, >> but not characteristic of scientific applications in general. > > Agreed, and then there is the Netlib Java numerical analysis code -- That > one gave be indigestion... > > One of the biggest problems is that no one wants rewrite linpack, blas, > etc., not that it has been polished within an inch of the developers live= s. > > As for FORTRAN, I thought about looking into the old f2c, and see how tha= t > worked for getting some FORTRAN compiled in Plan 9 as a demonstration. = =C2=A0I'll > think about linuxemu in this context. > > =C2=A0EBo -- > > > --=20 Federico G. Benavento