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[LitusSaxonicum]

Ian

MS Fortran also generated a single EXE, as did Supersoft, Digital Research, Ryan-Macfarland and several others. Salford with DBOS, Lahey and some others with "DOS extenders" started the multi-file paradigm.

I used to take my Lotus Elan +2S to the same garage as the MD of Prospero took his. Are they still in business? I have the GEM version of their compiler gathering dust on a shelf!

Eddie

[IanLambley]

Eddie,

Well, you certainly won that one! I don't know if Prospero still exist, I couldn't find them on Google.

Regards

Ian

PS my current car is also lots of trouble....! Elise 111s S2

[JohnCampbell]

I'm pretty sure that Lahey F95 ver 5.5 (a few years old) can generate a single .exe which can be distributed without a .dll
However, the use of .dll's is a good thing.
Dan's problem with an old dll was fixed by using an updated dll. There are few instances where new dll's and not backwardly compatible.
With the explosion in the size of win32 graphics programs, dll's are a definate improvement.
Lets leave this idea back in the 90's, where it was done to death.

John C

[DanRRight]

I of course "fixed" library differences. By editing for 30 minutes 500 instances of one function changed during last 5-7 years to subroutine and commenting in another library the whole block related to opengl.

If someone else will upgrade by himself, then my codes he uses will not work at all. I think Salford responded not less than 1000 times on the problems with the two libraies in the path. Or may be 10000.

And the request of single executable always was demanded by the users even since first appearance of Salford in 80th. I did not supported them at that time. Now I find it is actually useful.

Is it hard to do like a brain surgery?

[PaulLaidler]

Removing the dependance on a separate "Fortran" DLL (salflibc.dll) is on the wish list but is not a priority at the moment. Sorry.