Numeric Modern Fortran

The goal of this project is to create a Fortran library similar to Numpy/Scipy for scientific computing.

This library consists (or rather will eventually consist) of several modules to ease the scientific work. It aims to provide user-friendly utilities and relatively-efficient routines for scientific computing, numerical and related work.

Documentation

Documentation may be found in https://numericfor.github.io/numfor/index.html

Further information on the capabilities of the library may be learned by exploring the different modules.

It provides:

• A "submodule" Utils with basic, non-specific, functionality used in many (most?) scientific programs.
• A "submodule" Array_utils with basic functionality to work with arrays, including generation of grids, search of elements and sorting.
• A "submodule" Interpolate with routines to perform interpolation, fitting of data, and some work on polynomials.
• A "submodule" Integrate with routines to perform integration of real and complex functions, and of sampled data.

Installation

Firstly, download the library:

• git clone https://github.com/numericfor/numfor.git

The installation follow the usual steps. The simpler procedure is:

• cd numfor

• make Builds the module information file and static library

• make tests (optional, not yet fully implemented) Run tests on submodules

• make install Installs the library, modules and documentation into <prefix> path

Use

Simply compile your program with flags indicating where to find libnumfor.mod and link to libnumfor.a There are different ways to accomplish this:

1. Manually adding the information when compiling. For instance, when using gfortran

$> gfortran -c -o myprog.o -I <prefix>/include/numfor myprog.f90
$> gfortran -o myprog -L <prefix>/lib -lnumfor myprog.o

2. Using pkg-config

$> gfortran [your FFLAGS] -c -o myprog.o $(pkg-config --cflags numfor) myprog.f90
$> gfortran -o myprog myprog.o $(pkg-config --libs numfor)

or, simply in one step:

$> gfortran [your FFLAGS] -o myprog $(pkg-config --cflags numfor) myprog.f90 $(pkg-config --libs numfor)

Note that the library options must be, in both cases, at the end of the command.

In order to work, first the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH must be set. For instance, in linux you have to add to $HOME/.bashrc (or site /etc/bashrc if you install for all users) the folowing line:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="<prefix>/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

You will need to open a new terminal or source the bashrc file before compiling your program.