[FLASH-USERS] flash and absoft compiler

[Clint Young]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Dean Townsley wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to help my friend Evan get flash working.  He's got an
> Absoft fortran compiler on a Mac, and starting from the Absoft
> Makefile in the Prototypes directory we got as far as linking.  But it
> seems that this fortran compiler creates symbols in all caps but the C
> functions are in lowercase (like every other compiler wants them).
> 
> Does anyone know off-hand the way to make this work?
> 
> I tried -YEXT_NAMES=LCS which changes all the fortan symbols to
> lowercase, but then it has problems with the mpi functions.  I guess
> we need to rebuild mpich with a similar flag?  And it makes
> _RUNTIMEPARAMETERS_DATA not lowercase, but I don't know why this is
> special.  I'm just unsure if we are headed down the right path here.
> 
> Compiler is Absoft Pro fortran version 8.0.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> -Dean
>