moving FORTRAN 77 from 10.2 to New 11.0 system

[John D. Timmel]

We currently have an existing HP9000 v10.2 system with a licensed version of Fortran77. Are are upgrading to HP9000 L class servers running 11.0 HPux. Can I move the Fortran77 sw product to the new platform, and if so, how would I go about doing so.

[Shannon Petry · Accepted solution]

No. You can not just move the software from 10.20 to 11.0, for a multitude of reasons. You will have to order a new license for 11.0 fortran compiler. Check the 11i release though, i know they made some inclusions!

Anything compiled in 10.20 should work in 11.0 though, provided they are not dynamically linked to external libs which do not exist!

Regards,
Shannon

[John D. Timmel]

Thanks. I'll check what is available for 11.0 in case anything needs to be recompiled (for reasons other than the platform change)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi John:

In case you didn't know:

"The HP Fortran 90 compiler product is available on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.x. The HP Fortran 77 product has been discontinued. HP Fortran 90 is the only Fortran compiler that provides 64-bit support...". Take a look at:

http://devresource.hp.com/STK/planport.html

...JRF...

[John D. Timmel]

I understand that Fortran90 has a Fortran77
"backward compatability" mode.

[Shannon Petry]

True for backwards compatability mode. You may also wish to look at GNU. Their primary compiler will do fortran, C, C++, java, and more.

There are also some utilities which convert fortran to C. (not that you want to do that, but it's an idea! )

Regards,
Shannon