Question: Do we really need to have a Fortran compiler to build/configure this?

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C/Fortran interoperability library

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Question: Do we really need to have a Fortran compiler to build/configure this? #11

Closed zbeekman closed 5 years ago

zbeekman commented 6 years ago

There are no Fortran sources, so I'm wondering if we really need to have: project(ISO_Fortran_binding <version> languages Fortran C).

Couldn't we just have C?

Are we doing any compiler introspection somewhere for the Fortran compiler that I am missing?

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rouson commented 6 years ago

Fortran can be deleted for now. In the long run, I think it would be nice to have some tests wherein entities are declared in Fortran and then manipulated in C using the functions and data structures in this library, but there are no plans to write such tests anytime soon so feel free to just go with C.