RE: Root macro call Fortran subroutines

Greetings,

Here comes some feedback and more questions:

After I removed my previous ROOT version for windows Visual Studio and installed the gcc version, the Makefile gets to run nicer (and I changed gfortran to g77 in the Makefile.)

However, I still see a lot of error message in the end when it tries to produce the library file:

They are something like the following, many more lines on my screen:

/cygdrive/c/root/lib/libCore.dll.a:misc-inst.cc:(.text+0x626dbc): first defined here
/cygdrive/c/root/lib/libCint.dll.a:misc-inst.cc:(.text+0x18e4b0): multiple definition of `std::num_p
ut<char, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> > >::_M_pad(char, int, std::ios_base&
, char*, char const*, int&) const'
/cygdrive/c/root/lib/libCore.dll.a:misc-inst.cc:(.text+0x60536c): first defined here
/cygdrive/c/root/lib/libCint.dll.a:misc-inst.cc:(.text+0x18c400): multiple definition of `std::num_p
ut<char, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char, std::char_traits<char> > >::_M_group_int(std::basic_string<c
har, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, char, std::ios_base&, char*, char*, int&
) const'
/cygdrive/c/root/lib/libCore.dll.a:misc-inst.cc:(.text+0x6032bc): first defined here
/cygdrive/c/root/lib/libCint.dll.a:misc-inst.cc:(.text+0x1ab380): multiple

I remembered seeing some discussions in the forum previously, but I can not find the thread now.

Thanks,

Weijun

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Holm Christensen [mailto:cholm_at_nbi.dk] Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:51 AM
To: Brett Viren
Cc: Weijun Guo; RootTalk
Subject: Re: [ROOT] Root macro call Fortran subroutines

>
> Here is one way:
>
> 1) In your LinkDef.h file put lines like:
>
> #pragma link C++ function fortsub_;

This is problematic if the calling convention isn't the same on all platforms. Doing this, your scripts and linkdef files would have to be done for each and every platform separately. It's better to wrap the function in a C++ function or so (see the attached tar-ball).

> Where "fortsub" is the name of your FORTRAN sub routine. You need the
> trailing underscore.

Just to be clear - that depends on the calling convention used by the Fortran compiler.

> 2) Make a "fortsub.h" file that declares "fortsub_". Arrays of
> doubles or ints are just declared like "double*" or "int*". Say
> fortsub takes both then you'd do:

Erhm, actually, if you want to pass anything to a subroutine, it better be a reference or a pointer on the C/C++ side. Subroutines are allowed to change the value of the passed parameters, and you expect that change to propagate back to the caller (as in pure Fortran). Note, however, that references are enough for normal parameters (arrays, of course, should be pointers).

> // fortsub.h
> extern "C" {
> void fortsub_(double* darray, int* iarray);
> }
>
> 3) Then generate the dictionary code with rootcint
>
> 4) compile and link your .F, the generated dictionary code and any
> other source files you want.
>
> 5) Load lib into root.

See also the script `foo.C' in the attached tar-ball. Note, that I've also shown you have to interface a common block, and how to make sure it's initialised via a small static class.

> It is only the trailing underscore and the need to use
>
> extern "C" { ... }
>
> in the declaration (and knowing how FORTRAN passes arguments) that
> makes using FORTRAN subroutines any different than C++ functions.

Binary calling conventions. The reason for the `extern "C"' is to let the C++ compiler know, that it's shouldn't try to mangle the names in the body of the declaration.

Yours,

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