NAME

       fort77 - invoke f2c Fortran translator transparently, like a compiler

SYNOPSIS

       fort77  [-c]  [-g]  [-v]  [-k]  [-P] [-cpp] [f2c option ...]  [-L directory ...]  [gcc-option ...]  [link
       option ...]  [-O optlevel] [-o outfile] [-s] [-w] [-Wx,arg1[,arg2]...]  file ...

DESCRIPTION

       The fort77 script invokes the f2c command transparently, so it can be used like a real Fortran  compiler.
       It can be used to compile Fortran, C and assembler code, and to link it with the f2c libraries.

       File  arguments  ending with .f are compiled as Fortran source files.  Files which end with .P are passed
       through to f2c, and files ending with  .F  are  passed  to  the  C  preprocessor  (invoked  as  "/lib/cpp
       -traditional") first.  Any switches passed via -D will be passed to the preprocessor.  If the translation
       is  successful,  the  resulting  C files will be passed to cc for translation into an object file.  Files
       ending in .c, .C, .cc, .i, .s, .S, .m, .cc or .cxx are passed to the GNU C compiler directly; see gcc(1).
       All other files are passed to the linker.

OPTIONS

       -c      Supress linking and produce an object ( .o ) file from each source file.

       -g      Include debugging information.  -v Be  verbose;  supplying  this  twice  will  also  tell  the  C
               compilers etc to be verbose.

       -k      Keep the C files generated by f2c around.

       -cpp    Pass Fortran code through the C preprocessor, as if filenames ended in .F.

       -P      Generate f2c .P files.

       -Ldirectory
               Include directory in the search for libraries in the final linking stage.

       -o outfile
               Send output to outfile.

       -trapuv Have f2c generate code to trap uninitialized values.

       -Wx,arg1[,arg2...]
               Pass  the  argument[s]  argi through to the subprocess x, where x can assume one of the following
               values: f for the f2c step, p for the preprocessing step,  c  for  the  C  compiler,  a  for  the
               assembler (this is actually passed to the C compiler, too), and l for the linker.  As an example,
               defining  a  preprocessor  constant  for  the C compilation step would be done with -Wc,-DUNIX=1.
               Specifying the -f option to f2c would be done via -Wf,-f.

       f2c option
               fort77 passes through almost all f2c options: -C, -U, -u, -a, -E, -h, -P, -R, -r, -z,  -I2,  -I4,
               -onetrip, -!c, -!l, -!P, -!R, -ext, -!bs, -W[n], -trapuv, -w8, -r8 and -w66.

       gcc options
               The  following options are passed through to gcc: -f*, -W*, -U*, -A*, -m*, -S, -E, -v, -x, -pipe,
               -o, -I, -V, -b*, -p, -pg.

       linker option
               The options passed to the linking stage are -static, -shared, -v, -V, and -symbolic.

BUGS

       To make debugging work, you need to set a breakpoint at MAIN__ before you start.

       f2c This script automatically supplies the -I.  option to f2c.  Older versions of  f2c  may  not  support
       this.

       This  script  is for the interaction of gcc and f2c; using it with another compiler will probably require
       modification.

       The fort77 script does not strictly conform to Posix.2, because it acceppts long options with one leading
       slash.  This is done for gcc compatibility.

SEE ALSO

       f2c(1), cc(1), as(1), ld(1)

AUTHOR

       Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Linux                                               Nov 1996                                           FORT77(1)