Given the source code and a set of makefiles for a package, you have three options
for porting it to the Windows 2000/XP environment of the Velocity Complex:
- You can leave the makefile intact and try to run it under
Cygwin/MinGW.
- You can modify the makefile to make it acceptable to
Nmake.
- You can create a
VS .NET Solution containing projects for
each library and executable in the package.
Regardless of which of the above you choose, you will need to make adjustments to
the source code to replace OS-specific routines with similar utilities provided
by Windows. The symbol _WIN32 is automatically defined by each
compiler and it can be used with #ifdef directives for conditional
compilation of code, using the C or Fortran preprocessors as appropriate. (The C
preprocessor is automatically invoked for C programs.)
Portability Libraries
The Intel Fortran compiler provides portability functions (/4Yportlib).
See Table 1-1 in the Intel Fortran Libraries Reference.
For C/C++ programs see the sections on Porting from UNIX to
Win32 in the Microsoft Help.
