Utility program to check installation of RFortran

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Since the installation and configuration of RFortran requires several steps, 
including those requiring administrator priviliges, it is not always easy to 
attribute run problems to code problems or installation problems, especially 
with new operating systems, compiler versions, etc,

I recommend that a utility EXE file be provided that does some basic RFortran 
operations (init, and maybe send/receive some values) and reports 
success/failure. Since this file is compiled, there is no chance for user 
compilation/usage error etc, and hence it can be used as a check of the 
installation.

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file (or preferably a svn patch) as an attachment

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dmitri.k...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2011 at 8:39

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This utility is already under development and will be included in the next 
release of RFortran v3.1

Original comment by mark.th...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2011 at 11:01

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Mark,

See subroutine 'checkExtCon' in DMSL module 'EXTGATE_dmsl_kit' for an 
implementation that tests connections to R, Matlab and a few other goodies.

Perhaps you can use it as a basis for your routine, or somehow unify them. 
Would be good to move towards unified external connectors, rather than remember 
all the various peculiarities for RFortran, MATFortran, etc

cheers,
d

Original comment by dmitri.k...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2011 at 7:10

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D,

This already exists: 

See http://code.google.com/p/rfortran/wiki/GettingStarted for more information

and so there is no need to develop one

Mark

Original comment by mark.th...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2011 at 8:07

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