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Re: IMSL and cygwin
- From: LDR <lee at veritech dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:05:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: IMSL and cygwin
- References: <f3d29894449d3.449d3f3d29894@uidaho.edu>
- Reply-to: lee at veritech dot com
Ruprecht Machleidt wrote:
> Is there anybody out there who has tried to use the
> Fortran77 IMSL (International Math and Stat Library
> of Fortran77 routines) on cygwin?
>
> The problem with the IMSL is that it is sold only in compiled
> form (by Visual Numerics and by Absoft). They don't sell
> the sourse codes. If one could get a hand on the source codes,
> the problem would be solved, since one could then simply recompile
> all codes with the g77 compiler on cygwin.
>
> The closest compiled version of IMSL that I have is for
> Intel Architecture and LINUX Release 2.0 and later.
> It's from Absoft and works only in conjunction with
> the Absoft f77 compiler which creates another problem.
> In any case, the compiled version of IMSL for LINUX doesn't
> work on cygwin.
>
> Any advice is appreciate.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rup
>
By now, you're probably ruing your request for advice. However:
Try R, instead: http://R-Project.org .
If you do try it, you'll wonder how you ever put up with Forebodingtran ;-)
However, YMMV.
IMSL? It Makes Statisticians Loony? ;-)
But I regress (linearly, so to speak),
Lee
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