richardfoltyn/fortran-corelib

String type, argument parser, logging and other basic functionality for Fortran

Fortran corelib (fcore)

Fortran library which provides come basic functionality that is taken for granted in other languages or their standard libraries, such as a string type, command-line argument parsing, etc.

Installation

Linux

The library has been tested with the following compilers:

1. GNU gfortran 11.x, 12.x and 13.x
2. Intel ifort 2021.x, ifx 2024

To compile and install fcore, adapt to following to your environment:

# Define GCC compiler version
GCC_VERSION=14

# Path to source directory
SRC_DIR=$HOME/repos/fortran-corelib

# Define installation prefix
INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local

# Build directory
BUILD_DIR=$HOME/build/gnu/${GCC_VERSION}/fortran-corelib

mkdir -p "${BUILD_DIR}"
cd "${BUILD_DIR}"

On Debian/Ubuntu, the project can now be configured as follows:

FC=gfortran-${GCC_VERSION} CC=gcc-${GCC_VERSION} \
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_PREFIX} ${SRC_DIR}

On Fedora, the default GCC compiler does not have a version suffix, so the following should be used instead:

FC=gfortran CC=gcc cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_PREFIX} ${SRC_DIR}

To build and install the project, run

cmake --build .
cmake --install .

Usage

To integrate the library in your own CMake project, augment your CMakeLists.txt as follows. See also the minimal client in examples/client/.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)

project(fcore_client Fortran)

find_package(fcore REQUIRED)

add_executable(client client.f90)
target_link_libraries(client fcore::fcore)

Author

Richard Foltyn

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.