Version 11.5 Visual Studio Intel Fortran integration

[Gerhard Gerdes]

I have a problem to integrate Dislin Distribution 11.5 into the Fortran application in Visual Studio. In the FAQ the parameter settings are given as follows:

"Add the DISLIN libraries disifc.lib and disdll.lib together with the system libraries user32.lib and gdi32.lib to

Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies

(i.e. c:\dislin\disifc.lib c:\dislin\disdll.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib)"

Where can I find the libraries disifc.lib, disdll.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib? They are not available in the installation in my c:/dislin directory .

Regards

Gerd

[Helmut Michels]

Dear Gerd,

there are different distributions of Dislin for Intel Fortran. The distribution dl_11_if.zip is compiled from the Dislin

Fortran 90 code. This distribution contains the libraries disifc.lib and disdll.lib. The distribution dl_11_ic.zip is created

from the Dislin C source together with some wrapper routines for calling c code from Fortran. There are 32- and 64-bit

versions of dl_11_ic.zip. If you are creating 32-bit programs, you should link with the Dislin library disifm.lib instead of

disifc.lib and disdll.lib. For 64-bit programming the name of the Dislin library is disifl.lib.

user32.lib and gdi32.lib are Windows systems libraries. They are required by Dislin.

With best regards,

Helmut

[Gerhard Gerdes]

Dear Helmut,

sorry to bother you again. I tried to follow your advice, but I'm still not succesfull.

• I am running Visual Studio 2019 (VS)
  
• I installed the latest DISLIN Distribution for Windows 64-bit
• I choose d_11_ic.zip, dated 15.03.2022 and installed it in c:\Dislin, where disifl.lib is availble now
  

In VS I put

• Properties -> Fortran -> General -> Additional Include Directories :   c:\dislin\ifc ( I tried also  c:\dislin)
• Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies: c:\Dislin\disifl.lib

But in VS I get the message:

"error #7002: Error in opening the compiled module file. Check INCLUDE paths. [DISLIN]

In the Windows system the environment variable DISLIN is set to c:\dislin. Path is set to  c:\dislin\win

Regards Gerd

[Helmut Michels]

Dear Gerd,

everthing looks good. The setting c:\dislin\ifc in  'Additional Include Directories' is also correct, but there is no

pre-compiled file 'dislin.mod' in this  directory for the 64-bit distribution of Dislin for Intel Fortran. It's noted in the

Readme file. You have to compile the file dislin.f90 in the directory c:\dislin\ifc with your compiler version. For example,

with the command 'ifort -c dislin.f90' at the command line.

[Gerhard Gerdes]

Dear Helmut,

still it doesn't run. I compiled dislin.f90 and now there is dislin.mod available in c:\dislin\ifc.

Resulting in the error: "Verweis auf nicht aufgelöstes externes Symbol"...

and "unresolved externals"

I have upto now always used the 32-bit version, where I never had this problems.

Thanks already for your help.

Best regard Gerd

[Helmut Michels]

Dear Gerd,

a reason for the undefined symbols could be  that Visual Studio tries to create 32-bit applications while it is linking

with the 64-bit Dislin library. Please check if the target is really x64.

With best regards,

Helmut

[Gerhard Gerdes]

Dear Helmut,

just to give you an feed-back: my problem was simply a mixture of Win32 and x64 settings in Visual Studio, as you indicated. Now I have DISLIN in both versions available. 

Thanks for your help.

Gerd

[Helmut Michels]

Dear Gerd,

very good. Thank you for the information.

With best regards,

Helmut