Using Dislin with Freebasic

[hengre]

Hello,
I have some questions using Freebasic with Dislin.
Is it possible to use Dislin for Freebasic parallel to Dislin for Fortran?
Are there any examples for setting compiler options?
Are other preconditions to be done
honestly, I am not much familar with freebasic

Regards 

[Helmut Michels]

Dear Hengre,

yes, this is possible. All 32- or 64-bit distributions of Dislin can be installed in the same directory. The libraries

and links utilities have individual names. Only, the 32- and 64-bit distributions of Dislin for a  compiler

should not be installed  in the same directory.

With best regards,

Helmut

[hengre]

Thank you for the quick answer.

But I don't understand it. First 2 sentences are clear. But what means the last one?

Regards

[Helmut Michels]

For example, there is a 32-bit distribution of Dislin for Mingw 32-bit and another 64-bit distribution for Mingw 64-bit.

Both distributions should not be installed in the same directory, since the distributions use identical library names.

With best regards,

Helmut

[hengre]

ohh, I didn't recognise the "or" in the first sentence and the "and" in the last one :-)

But now it is clear- Thanx

[hengre]

Hello again.

I was able to compile my first program with Freebasic and Dislin.

To run the EXE-file I had to ad the dislnc.dll in the folder where the EXE was. Is that the usual way or can the EXE compiled with static Library

I used the following command line

C:\FEM\Freebasic\FreeBASIC-1.10.1-win64\fbc -s console  -i C:\FEM\Freebasic\dislinfb\  -p   C:\FEM\Freebasic\dislinfb\  -l dislnc "test.bas"

Regards

[Helmut Michels]

Hi,

the DLL dislnc.dll is located in the 'win' subdirectory of the Dislin directory. It should be enough to add this

directory  to your PATH environment. You don't have to copy it to your current working directory.

With best regards,

Helmut

[hengre]

Hi,

yes that's clear for my PC, but if I want to share the program I need to provide the DLL, too?

Regards

[Helmut Michels]

Hi,

the Dislin distributions for FreeBASIC contains the import library dislnc.lib and the corresponding DLL dislnc.dll.

If you link your program with dislnc.lib, you have to distribute the DLL dislnc.dll together with your program, but

that's no problem. You are allowed to do this.

If you want to create a program that uses only static libraries, you can download the Dislin distribution for MingW

and link your program for example with the following command:

  fbc   -i c:\dislin64  -p c:\dislin64  -l dismg  -l user32  -l gdi32 -l opengl32  curve.bas

Tested with FreeBASIC 1.08.1 64-bit. For that case I have disabled the INCLIB statement in dislin.bi.

[hengre]

Hello, 

Sorry asking again, but I was not able to compile only with static libraries.

I tried

fbc   -i C:\FEM\Freebasic\dislinfb  -p c:\dislin  -l dismg  -l user32  -l gdi32 -l opengl32  test2.bas

and got this error

C:\FEM\Freebasic\FreeBASIC-1.10.1-win64\fbc   -i C:\FEM\Freebasic\dislinfb  -p c:\dislin  -l dismg  -l user32  -l gdi32 -l opengl32 "test2.bas"
C:\FEM\Freebasic\FreeBASIC-1.10.1-win64\bin\win64\ld.exe: cannot find -ldismg

Why ist the dismg library not found?

I have disabled the INCLIB statement in dislin.bi.  located in C:\FEM\Freebasic\dislinfb

' /****************************************************************/
' /**                        DISLIN.BI                           **/
' /** Date     : 15.03.2024                                      **/
' /** Functions: 797                                             **/
' /** Version  : 11.5.2, Windows, 64-bit                         **/
' /****************************************************************/
'  #INCLIB "dislnc"    'the shareable library for MS Visual C++ is used
NAMESPACE Dislin
EXTERN "C"
DECLARE SUB a...     _

I am using DISLIN installed in c:\dislin

**  Date   :   15.02.2020                                         **
**  Version:   11.3 / Windows 64-bit, gcc/g++/gfortran - Mingw64  **              **

and DISLIN for FREEBASIC installed in C:\FEM\Freebasic\dislinfb

******************************************************************
**  Date   :   15.03.2024                                       **
**  Version:   11.5.2  /  Windows 64-bit                      

[Helmut Michels]

Hi,

okay, I forgot to mention that I have a copy of dismg.a to libdismg.a in my directory, so that the -l

option was working for me, but you can also use the library dismg.a with an explicit path.

For example:

fbc   -i C:\FEM\Freebasic\dislinfb  -p c:\dislin  c:\dislin\dismg.a  -l user32  -l gdi32 -l opengl32  test2.bas

 

With best regards,

Helmut

[hengre]

Thank You,

it works fine now.

Regards