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mpif77(1)							     Open MPI								 mpif77(1)

NAME
mpif77 -- Open MPI Fortran 77 wrapper compiler SYNTAX
mpif77 [-showme|-showme:compile|-showme:link] ... OPTIONS
-showme Do not invoke the underlying compiler. Instead, show the command line that would be executed to compile the program. NOTE: If a non-filename argument is passed on the command line, the -showme option will not display any additional flags. For example, both "mpif77 --showme" and "mpif77 --showme my_source.c" will show all the wrapper-supplied flags. But "mpif77 -showme -v" will only show the underlying compiler name and "-v". -showme:compile Do not invoke the underlying Fortran 77 compiler. Instead, show the compiler flags that would be supplied to the Fortran 77 com- piler. -showme:link Do not invoke the underlying Fortran 77 compiler. Instead, show the linker flags that would be supplied to the Fortran 77 compiler. See the man page for your underlying compiler for other options that can be passed through mpif77 DESCRIPTION
Conceptually, the role of these commands is quite simple: transparently add relevant compiler and linker flags to the user's command line that are necessary to compile / link Open MPI programs, and then invoke the underlying compiler to actually perform the command. As such, these commands are frequently referred to as "wrapper" compilers because they do not actually compile or link applications them- selves; they only add in command line flags and invoke the back-end compiler. Background Open MPI is comprised of three software layers: OPAL (Open Portable Access Layer), ORTE (Open Run-Time Environment), and OMPI (Open MPI). There are wrapper compilers for each layer; each layer's wrapper only links in the libraries relevant for that layer. Specifically, each layer provides the following wrapper compilers: OPAL opalcc and opalc++ ORTE ortecc and ortec++ OMPI mpicc, mpic++, mpicxx, mpiCC (only on systems with case-senstive file systems), mpif77, and mpif90. Note that mpic++, mpicxx, and mpiCC all invoke the same underlying C++ compiler with the same options. All are provided as compatibility with other MPI implementa- tions. The Fortran wrapper compilers for MPI (mpif77 and mpif90) will be inoperative and will return an error on use if Fortran 77 / Fortran 90 support was not built into the MPI layer. Overview mpif77 is a convenience wrappers for the underlying Fortran 77 compiler. Translation of an Open MPI program requires the linkage of the Open MPI-specific libraries which may not reside in one of the standard search directories of ld(1). It also often requires the inclusion of header files what may also not be found in a standard location. mpif77 passes its arguments to the underlying Fortran 77 compiler along with the -I, -L and -l options required by Open MPI programs. The Open MPI Team strongly encourages using the wrapper compilers instead of attempting to link to the Open MPI libraries manually. This allows the specific implementation of Open MPI to change without forcing changes to linker directives in users' Makefiles. Indeed, the specific set of flags and libraries used by the wrapper compilers depends on how Open MPI was configured and built; the values can change between different installations of the same version of Open MPI. Indeed, since the wrappers are simply thin shells on top of an underlying compiler, there are very, very few compelling reasons not to use mpif77. When it is not possible to use the wrappers directly, the -showme:compile and -showme:link options should be used to determine what flags the wrappers would have used. For example: shell$ cc -c file1.c `mpicc -showme:compile` shell$ cc -c file2.c `mpicc -showme:compile` shell$ cc file1.o file2.o `mpicc -showme:link` -o my_mpi_program NOTES
It is possible to make the wrapper compilers multi-lib aware. That is, the libraries and includes specified may differ based on the com- piler flags specified (for example, with the GNU compilers on Linux, a different library path may be used if -m32 is seen versus -m64 being seen). This is not the default behavior in a standard build, but can be activated (for example, in a binary package providing both 32 and 64 bit support). More information can be found at: https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/compilerwrapper3264 FILES
The string that the wrapper compilers insert into the command line before invoking the underlying compiler are stored in a text file cre- ated by Open MPI and installed to $pkgdata/mpif77-wrapper-data.txt, where $pkgdata is typically $prefix/share/openmpi, and $prefix is the top installation directory of Open MPI. It is rarely necessary to edit this file, but it can be examined to gain insight into what flags the wrappers are placing on the command line. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
By default, the wrappers use the compilers that were selected when Open MPI was configured. These compilers were either found automati- cally by Open MPI's "configure" script, or were selected by the user in the CC, CXX, F77, and/or FC environment variables before "config- ure" was invoked. Additionally, other arguments specific to the compiler may have been selected by configure. These values can be selectively overridden by either editing the text files containing this configuration information (see the FILES sec- tion), or by setting selected environment variables of the form "OMPI_value". Valid value names are: CPPFLAGS Flags added when invoking the preprocessor (C or C++) LDFLAGS Flags added when invoking the linker (C, C++, or Fortran) LIBS Libraries added when invoking the linker (C, C++, or Fortran) CC C compiler CFLAGS C compiler flags CXX C++ compiler CXXFLAGS C++ compiler flags F77 Fortran 77 compiler FFLAGS Fortran 77 compiler flags FC Fortran 90 compiler FCFLAGS Fortran 90 compiler flags OMPI
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