https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Global-Commons/m-p/977432#M25349 We are currently porting some code from another platform which makes extensive use of Fortran Common blocks which are then mapped to shared memory and are used by many processes. We have acheived this under VMS with Linker options and under Tru64 by creating shared common files and incorporating them into the link. <BR /> <BR />Has anybody any idea how to acheive this in a Windows environment? Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:12:59 GMT Intel_C_Intel 2001-12-11T22:12:59Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Global-Commons/m-p/977432#M25349 We are currently porting some code from another platform which makes extensive use of Fortran Common blocks which are then mapped to shared memory and are used by many processes. We have acheived this under VMS with Linker options and under Tru64 by creating shared common files and incorporating them into the link. <BR /> <BR />Has anybody any idea how to acheive this in a Windows environment? Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:12:59 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Global-Commons/m-p/977432#M25349 Intel_C_Intel 2001-12-11T22:12:59Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Global-Commons/m-p/977433#M25350 Yes - see the DLLEXP1 and DLLEXP2 samples. The key is the linker option /SECTION.<BR /><BR />Steve Wed, 12 Dec 2001 04:14:20 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Global-Commons/m-p/977433#M25350 Steven_L_Intel1 2001-12-12T04:14:20Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Global-Commons/m-p/977434#M25351 DLLEXP2 does exactly what I require <BR /> <BR />Thank-you Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:09:14 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Global-Commons/m-p/977434#M25351 Intel_C_Intel 2001-12-13T00:09:14Z