Trouble with DISLIN and gFORTRAN in UBUNTU

[12cou]

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Hello everyone,

I supposedly managed to install DISLIN in ubuntu. In the documentation they say that for 'compiling, linking and running the example programs' with gfortran one should type:

gf95link -a exa_f90

and the answer I obtained from the bash was:

bash: gf95link: order not found

Anyway, I decided to try with raghu81's example. I copy-pasted the code in a file, and put it in a new folder. Then I typed on the bash:

gfortran -o hello hello.f90 -ldislin

and the answer I obtain from the bash is:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldislin

What I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

 

[xwb]

Where have you installed dislin? Say you installed it in /home/DISLIN and in that directory lives libdislin.a The build line should look like

gfortran -o hello hello.f90 -L/home/DISLIN -ldislin

-L says look here for the libraries
-l says this is the library minus lib prefix and .a or .so suffix

 

[12cou]

Hi xwb, thanks for your advice. It seems that the system is now finding that library, but I'm afraid there is another gap, as the bash said:

/usr/bin/ld: warning: libXm.so.4, needed by /home/al/dislin/libdislin.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libgfortranbegin.a(fmain.o): In function `main':
(.text+0x35): undefined reference to `MAIN__'

I though I have installed correctly libXm.so.4 but it seems I didnt. Let me one more question: this file is supposedly in this web:

http://www.openmotif.org./filebrowser/openmotif/2.2/2.2.3/linux-rpm

But Im using UBUNTU, what option would you recommend me? Fedora?

Thanks again!

 

[xwb]

There are several sources for libXm. openmotif is one of them. lesstif is another one which may or may not be in Ubuntu. Fedora is similar to Ubuntu - only the popular stuff is installed. The less popular stuff like Motif, you have to find the rpm for it.

See if you can locate libXm.so.n - where n is any number. See if you can fool it by copying libXm.so.n to libXm.so.4 and put it in your rpath as recommended. I've never used rpath before so I can't really tell you the syntax.