DISLIN with Digital/Compaq/HP/Intel Visual Fortran

DISLIN is a high-level library for displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots, surfaces, contours, and maps. It is developed at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and supports several operating systems and programming languages. DISLIN is free for non-commercial purposes.

Fig. 1: Example output of DISLIN

I tested DISLIN with the dusty Compaq Visual Fortran Professional Edition 6.6c compiler, but it should work with other Visual Fortran versions as well.

Installation

1. Download the distribution for "Digital/Compaq Visual Fortran 5.x, 6.x" from the official website.
2. Unzip dl_11_df.zip and run setup.exe.
3. Install DISLIN to c:\dislin.
4. Set the environment variable DISLIN to c:\dislin and add c:\dislin\win to the system path variable.

Usage

Attention: Ensure that the active configuration of your Fortran project is set to "Release". The "Debug" configuration seems not to work with DISLIN, as you will likely encounter linking errors (unresolved external symbol).

Fig. 2: The project settings in Compaq Visual Fortran

Follow these steps inside the Visual Fortran IDE to add DISLIN to your Fortran project:

• Project → Add To Project → Files …
  Add Fortran source file c:\dislin\dislin.f90
• Project → Settings → Fortran → Libraries
  Use run-time library: Multi-threaded
• Project → Settings → Fortran → Preprocessor
  INCLUDE and USE Paths: c:\dislin
• Project → Settings → Link → Input
  Add object/library modules: disdll.lib disdvf.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib
  (user32.lib and gdi32.lib should be already in the list)
  Additional library path: c:\dislin

Finally, compile your Fortran project.

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Last Update: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:46:12 +0100