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Yet Another Legacy Fortran Question

damianh
O Learned Denizens, I humbly prostrate myself before your collected wisdom, as ever.
 
I want to compile some legacy Fortran for a user TYR501 that I successfully compiled as recently as 2019. I note with interest that Intel decline to sell me anything other than "oneAPI" these days. I further note that MSC insists I use Intel Fortran XE 2019 Update 4. This dance happens every time and is becoming tedious.
 
But enough whining.
 
I note that Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition is free and will successfully compile and link sample routines like sfosub.c provided with the installation. Interestingly it still seems to call some Intel Fortran libraries, but that's a topic for another day.
 
So, it occurs to me that sooner or later I need to get myself out of the 1970s and move to C. However, I am not seeing any sample code for TYR501 and/or RPF501 in C (though the fortran examples are still there).
 
Is there a TYR501 C example anywhere? Any pointers in generating one?
 
Damian
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    I think the TYR501 is the most outdated code I stumbled across in the last 20 years or so.
    (I admit still keeping it as a reference for a tire usersub)
    There wouldn't be a big problem to C'ify the Fortan code, if it was pure Fortan.
    Unfortunately there's a lot of stuff that's acar solver utilities like fialafx and as long as nobody tells you the excat calling sequence for C, you'd be pretty lost.
     
    Nevertheless:
    All "free" compilers have culprits and/or involve a lot of hacks to make them work.
    The least pricey solution is to bite the bullet for a Intel Parallel Studio & Visual Studio.
    Using these, you can still compile "old" Fortan sources on windows.
    Last time I ran that was 5 min ago to compile our plugin solvers for brand new ADAMS 2021.1.
     
    How abvout MSC offering a compiling service for their customers ?
    At least over here it's easier to spend 10k on a consulting contract than getting 200 bucks to buy a compiler license.
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    I think the TYR501 is the most outdated code I stumbled across in the last 20 years or so.
    (I admit still keeping it as a reference for a tire usersub)
    There wouldn't be a big problem to C'ify the Fortan code, if it was pure Fortan.
    Unfortunately there's a lot of stuff that's acar solver utilities like fialafx and as long as nobody tells you the excat calling sequence for C, you'd be pretty lost.
     
    Nevertheless:
    All "free" compilers have culprits and/or involve a lot of hacks to make them work.
    The least pricey solution is to bite the bullet for a Intel Parallel Studio & Visual Studio.
    Using these, you can still compile "old" Fortan sources on windows.
    Last time I ran that was 5 min ago to compile our plugin solvers for brand new ADAMS 2021.1.
     
    How abvout MSC offering a compiling service for their customers ?
    At least over here it's easier to spend 10k on a consulting contract than getting 200 bucks to buy a compiler license.
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