SLINK/Win32 V1.42, error message

I ahve just started using the 'free' version. To give it a test drive I tried to run the first program 'xflmoon' from 'Numerical Recipes, 2ed' ISBN 0-531 43064-X using the code from 'Code CDROM v2.11'. The example is a program 'xflmoon'. It calls an external subroutine 'flmoon'. there are 3 utilities nr, nrutil and nrtype. I packed all in the f90 files into the main 'project' directory and compiled and ran. I got a linker message $MODULE nrtype *** Don't understand MODULE All three were compiled into .mod files and the other two reference nrtype. Looking at them the syntax is identical. This is classic code. Numerical Recipes ( NR) has their own web site and g95 claims tohave run them. ??

Is the project source only or are you linking to objects/libraries for the CD?

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Carl

Without further information, I do not know what has gone wrong but the failure message simply indicates that the linker SLINK has been supplied with an invalid command.

Thank you for your help.

I am using the source code as supplied on the CD for 'Numerical Recipes' in Fortran from Cambridge U. Press. There is a web site for these at nr.com. These have been around since '86 in various languages. My CD is the 'omnibus' V2.11 (C2002) in F77, F90, C, C++, Pascal, and Basic. I used the F90. This is arranged into 4 directories: 'data' containing data to be read by the 'example' programs in the 'example' directory and 'other' directory containing the 'library' files nr, nrtype and nrutil, all source files is text format.

I tried to pick the simplest program example and manually loaded all the references files including those in the 'other' directory into the main 'project' directory in Plato to avoid pathing problems. I used Plato to issue the commands. The error message from SLINK and the generation of .MOD files for nr, nrtype and nrutil in the root dir. of C: was the result. My ref for Fortran is 'fortran 95/2003 explained' c'06 Oxford U Press, 'Introduction to Programming with Fortran'(coverage of F77, F90, F95 and F2003 ) , c'06 Springer and 'Numerical Methods for Engineers' c'06. Chapman & Hall/CRC, and 'Numerical Algorithims with Fortran' c'93 Springer. All of these have available source files for the algorithims either on a CD or on their web sites.

I am trying to get hopefully prefab code running as a base from which to customize applications.

Carl

If you are getting a SLINK error report then we need to find out what commands are being sent to the linker. This may be difficult when using Plato3 because the command line is not visible. I will aim to add facility to Plato but in the mean time all that you can do is

1. check that you have entered the correct information into Project Properties dialog. Start with the default information and add any changes one at a time and/or

2. find out from the help file how to run SLINK from a command prompt (DOS) box.

If you need to continue this conversion it may be better to start a new thread next time because it can take a while to drill down to here.