Octave & Fortran continued

[Michael Goffioul]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Jaroslav Hajek <highegg at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
>
> further to the recent discussion about Octave's Fortran compiler
> support, here's an important (IMHO) update:
> I've just noticed that the unbelievable thing actually happened and
> LAPACK moved (apart from a number of improvements etc) to Fortran 90,
> so F90 compiler is officially required to build LAPACK 3.2. Since
> Octave probably really wants to keep up with LAPACK as it relies
> fundamentally on it, we should IMHO think about ways to overcome the
> limitations of the MSVC/Windows platform that keep Octave stuck with
> the subset of Fortran that f2c supports.
> Hmm, another clear signal that Fortran is not dead.
>
> So, is it really impossible to use gfortran or g95 on Windows together
> with MSVC?

Definitely no idea...
I'll have to give it a try.

Michael.