Running Silverfrost's Thread Sample

The FTN95 Help system includes a 'Threads Sample' code snippet. When I paste this sample code into Plato and try to compile, I get compiler errors such as 'ASSEMBLY_EXTERNAL is only allowed in CLR mode (with /CLR switch specified)'.

I can't find any instructions on CLR mode. Looking at the ASSEMBLY_EXTERNAL Help topic I see that since it is a .NET method, I have to add a LIBRARY directive, but don't know what library to point to.

What specifically do I need to do to get the Threads Sample code to compile and run?

Thanks! Clay

First thing to check, you must compile with 64 bit not 32 bit to use threads.

see the file notes_on_parallel_processing

in C:\Program Files (x86)\Silverfrost\FTN95\doc

Ken

The 'Threads sample' is for .NET only.

There are three platforms Win32, .NET and x64. Which one do you want to use?

PaulLaidler: Thanks for the reply, building with .NET allowed the example code to compile, but it still won't run. When I run it I get a FTN95 exception: Salford.Fortran.RuntimeException Error 359: Control is too big for window

Any idea what's going wrong with the example code?

Thanks.

Kenneth_Smith: Thanks very much for the tip about the notes_on_parallel_processing file. Very helpful!

When I paste the example code into Plato and compile with 64-bit, the program freezes when run. When I run it in the debugger, it gets to the line:

ID=GetParallelTaskID@(1)

the debugger simply says 'Status: Program Terminated'

You can surely tell that I'm new to parallel processing, but would be interested in investigating if I could get an example program to execute for me to play with.

Thanks in advance for any advice or assistance! Clay

I just tried the .NET threads example and it ran okay for me. How did you run it Clay?