Running fortran in perl

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Re: Running fortran in perl by pc88mxer (Vicar) on May 30, 2008 at 14:46 UTC
If it's a separate program you can do it with `system`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Running fortran in perl by nessundorma (Initiate) on May 30, 2008 at 15:04 UTC
Thank you! That might have seemed like an easy peasy question, but I could not find an answer anywhere except here. -No longer Anonymous Monk	[reply]
Re: Running fortran in perl by apl (Monsignor) on May 30, 2008 at 15:18 UTC
Google turned up one site you might want to take a look at: Running Interactive Fortran Programs via the Web. I hope this helps.	[reply]
Re: Running fortran in perl by ambrus (Abbot) on May 30, 2008 at 14:54 UTC
Compile the fortran functions to object files with a fortran compiler, link them to a shared library, write C declarations for the publically exported functions (you may need to use some declaration modifier specific to your C compiler for this, because the calling conventions of fortran functions can be different from that of C functions), and use these C functions via XS. Alternately, you can use Inline::C instead of XS for some loss of flexibility.	[reply]