use just one routine?

[Andrea]

Hello everyone,
I´m new in this, so excuse if my question is so basic :(
It is possible to compile just one routine to call from another fortram program? (obviously with the associatted subroutines). Specifically I want to use the sgbsv one to solve a pentadiagonal matrix.
I´m on windows xp and using Compaq Visual fortran to compile. I tried to compile but I obtained this error message:

dfor.lib(DFORMAIN.OBJ) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MAIN__
Debug/sgbsv.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

It seems that I need a library, could be?

Many thanks in advance to anyone that can help me!!!
Cheers,
Andrea

[admin]

If you want to use sgbsv, you will need this routine plus all its LAPACK dependencies.
They can be downloaded here: http://www.netlib.org/cgi-bin/netlibfil ... le/sgbsv.f
LAPACK needs the BLAS, so you will have also to link with the BLAS.

Regarding your error, yes it seems you are missing a main program.
Best would be maybe to try to use Cygwin that is a Unix-like environment under Windows and use gfortran as Fortran Compiler.
Good luck!
Julie