I’m trying to help package version 1.14.0 of the HDF5 library via MSYS2 and MINGW. There’s a question of where to place .mod files when packaging. Previously, they were placed in bin/static/Release and bin/shared/Release. It’s been suggested that they be moved to the include folder. I do not have …

Just my two cents: .mod files are specific to the compiler, so in that sense they belong more to the libraries. But they are needed at compile time, which makes them more like include files. To solve this puzzle I suggest you look at the solution fpm uses.

As @Arjen says, .mod files are specific to both a compiler vendor and a compiler version. So the short answer is that you don’t package them.

[image] plevold: short answer is that you don’t package them So how would linking to a library compiled with a set of flags X to a code compiled with a set of flags Y work then? AFAIK when packaging people tend to cover multiple compiler vendors, compiler versions and other external librarie…

To be sure that it works you’d have to make a bind(c) interface to the code. The static archive could be packaged with a source file declaring the interface in order to make it easy and safe to use. This isn’t unique to Fortran, but applies to e.g. C++ as well. One reason for this is that different…

The approach I use is to set up a shared module directory, and put all modules that are shared by programs in several directories into that directory. When compiled, these create one or more .mod files in that directory and also a .o file in that directory. I usually move the .o file into a library …

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