# LFortran compiles LAPACK

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695>\
**Category:** LFortran\
**Created:** [February 5, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695 "2026-02-05T16:58:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![certik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/certik/32/4_2.png) [@certik](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/certik)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695/1 "2026-02-05T16:58:45Z")

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LFortran can now compile LAPACK, single/double precision, real/complex, 32-bit/64-bit integers, all tests pass:

- [LFortran compiles LAPACK -](https://lfortran.org/blog/2026/02/lfortran-compiles-lapack/)

Thank you @ert for getting it over the finish line!

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**Author:** ![fxm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/fxm/32/5726_2.png) [@fxm](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/fxm)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695/2 "2026-02-05T17:04:08Z")

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That’s a significant milestone/achievement and great news! Thanks @certik, @ert, and all other contributors.

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**Author:** ![Beliavsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Beliavsky](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Beliavsky)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695/3 "2026-02-05T17:38:01Z")

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Very good. What about the modernization, **[fortran-lapack](https://github.com/perazz/fortran-lapack)?**

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**Author:** ![certik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/certik/32/4_2.png) [@certik](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/certik)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695/4 "2026-02-05T19:53:50Z")

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We should tackle the `fortran-lapack` soon — we currently don’t support quadruple precision, but probably a good time to implement it anyway.

@FedericoPerini should we move it under fortran-lang?

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**Author:** ![FedericoPerini](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/federicoperini/32/1750_2.png) [@FedericoPerini](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/FedericoPerini)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 9:18pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695/5 "2026-02-05T21:18:03Z")

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the modernized LAPACK work has been integrated into the Fortran Standard Library since v0.4.0 which was released a bit over two years ago but since then, development has continued directly within stdlib, with a growing set of higher-level APIs.

Congratulations on the big milestone! It’s nice to see interest from the compiler side as well.

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**Author:** ![certik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/certik/32/4_2.png) [@certik](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/certik)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695/6 "2026-02-05T22:05:53Z")

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Perfect, then we’ll just get the latest stdlib working again, we got some older version working, but not the very latest version.

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**Author:** ![tyranids](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@tyranids](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/tyranids)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 2:24am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695/7 "2026-02-06T02:24:27Z")

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That is AWESOME

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**Author:** ![zaikunzhang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/zaikunzhang/32/785_2.png) [@zaikunzhang](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/zaikunzhang)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 6:35am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/lfortran-compiles-lapack/10695/8 "2026-02-06T06:35:21Z")

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Magnificent! Monumental! Congratulations to the LFortran team!
