Compilation order with modules

[ferrad01]

I have a largish project (155 f90 files, each containg 1 module). All was building fine, the I decided to rename some modules, and now it won't link, saying it cannot find the module that the file it's compiling is trying to USE. I then deleted all the .MOD files, now it's even worse.

I thought that the linker would work out the dependencies itself, but this doesn appear to be happening. How do I get this to build automatically without me having to manually work out what depends on what?

One thing I did do is move all the USE statements from some f90 files into separate f90 files, and INCLUDE'd these in the original files. (stop press: just removed these, but it didn't help)

There are no circular dependencies.

I just looked at the CVF IDE, and it has "Build -> Update all Dependencies". I don't see this in the IVF IDE though.

[Les_Neilson]

>I decided to rename some modules

Just to be clear. You renamed the *module* not the filename?
Simple things first :
check spellings of the changed module names;
check target directoriesare correct

>I thought that the linker would work out the dependencies itself but this doesn appear to >be happening. How do I get this to build automatically without me having to manually >work out what depends on what?

Alas you have to define the dependencies, and build order, yourself (thanks Microsoft!)
Project->Dependencies or Project->Build Order

>One thing I did do is move all the USE statements from some f90 files into separate f90
>files, and INCLUDE'd these in the original files. (stop press: just removed these, but it
> didn't help)

That should have been ok.Provided (a) the modules compiled without error; and (b) the module names are correct.
I prefer toname the include files as .ins rather than .f90; means I can search include files seperate from source files.

Les

[ferrad01]

Yes, I renamed the modules not the files.

As far as dependencies go, I don't see any options under Project or Build named "Dependencies" or "Build Order". I'm using VS2005

A previous thread on this subject said IVF was supposed to work out the dependencies for itself.

[Les_Neilson]

Ok, the Project->Dependencies and Build Order optionsoccur on the menuonly if the solution has more than one project.

For a similar situation I had with modules and supporting libraries, including mixed langauge libs, I created a new solution thatincluded the individual projects then I set the dependencies and build order manually in that solution. Then instead of buildingthe projects one at a time myself, I build the new solution. It only tookan hour, or two at the most,for the whole thing.

Les

[ferrad01]

I only have one project now. I used to have 7 but I got sick of trying to set up the dependencies of each, so I copied them all into one folder and one project.

[ferrad01]

I upgraded to 10.1 and now it compiles and links properly.