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From: Ritzert@DMZRZU71.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Help with Absoft Fortran
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Date: 29 Nov 89 14:05:00 GMT
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I have problems with Absoft Fortran. I am porting Erlgraph 2.1, a
graphics library of about 650 routines, to the ST. It is easy to compile
the routines. But I have problems to create the libraries (as the
Absoft's libraries are restricted to at most 210 routines, at least 4
libraries are needed):
          The librarian is very rudimentary. You cannot drive it by
          command line arguments or a script file. And input redirection
          from gulam doesn't work. Of course, I don't want to type in
          650 names by hand. And I want to avoid to look into the
          program with a dissassembler and search for a possibility to
          patch it.

Is there any substitution for the librarian/linker system? Since I use
Gulam and GNU make, I would prefer command line driven substitutes if
they exist. A linker that can use libraries in GNU format would be great
since I have gcc-ar.

Side question: is there any utility to convert dri and/or Absoft objects
to GNU objects and vice versa? I am not able to write such a thing. But
I would like to write the machine dependent parts of the GKS-Metafile
drivers in C.

Thanks!

Michael Ritzert
mjr@dmzrzu71.bitnet