Re: converting a 700,000+ line Fortran 77 plus 50,000+ line C++ program to C++, part 2

On 4/9/2025 7:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 14:48:12 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

On 4/9/2025 2:18 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 15:06:06 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
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I tried GFortran and GCC with Simply Fortran for a long while but the
debugging is simply horrible.

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Have you tried using the GNU tools (gfortran, gcc, gdb etc) directly,
leaving out the Simply Fortran middleman?

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No, we want to get away from compiling and linking directly.  That is
what we use with Open Watcom F77 and C++.
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With over 5,000 subroutines, each in their own file, keeping track of
everything is difficult on a good day.

 This is why you have build systems.

I started using the first IDE (interactive development environment) in 1983 ??? with Turbo Pascal.  $49 IIRC.  It was a simply amazing way of doing things.  Nowadays, Visual Studio comes closest to the Turbo Pascal IDE but even it is not quite there.  Visual Studios lack of a decent Fortran compiler sucks.
I moved back to build systems on the Apollo Domain in 1989 using DSEE but it was a downer compared to Turbo Pascal.  It did allow multiple user development teams to work together though.  We only had a few hallway fights on code conflicts, most were resolved by DSEE.
Lynn