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From: Alain Le Guennec <Alain.Le_Guennec@NOSPAM.irisa.fr>
Subject: Re: How To Compile Ada Prog Interfaced With Fortran
Date: 1998/09/23
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Date: 1998-09-23T00:00:00+00:00
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On any GNAT ftp-mirror, you'll find an Ada binding to LAPACK
in the sub-directory  contrib/lapack-ada/
I used it successfully about 2 years ago.
No need to reinvent the wheel.

william.oliver@colorado.edu (oliver) writes:

> >Or better, put your Fortran objects into a library (let's call it libft.a),
> >and add a <<pragma Linker_Options ("-lft");>> in an Ada package that
> >uses that library.
> >
> >  Sam
> 
> This seems to good to be true. Could one use this approach to gain
> complete access to LAPACK or to the Numerical Recipes software? Or is this
> something that one can do in theory but no one does in practice? I'm
> looking into using Ada for numeric programming, but I'm disheartened to
> find that there is very little supporting code available. Is this because
> it is very easy in Ada to access existing functions in such packages as
> LAPACK?
> 
> -Bill

/Alain Le Guennec, not speaking for IRISA.