Suggestion to ease installation and first steps

[Yan-44]

Hi @szaghi
First of all, a big thanks for making your VTKFortran package publicly available, this is very helpful for Fortran developers willing to produce binary VTK files. I have just installed it and compiled your 'A taste of VTKFortran' file that I displayed on Paraview - works perfectly well!

Next, the purpose of this message is to make a few suggestions to ease the installation of your package and take the first steps by 'newbies' (like me!).

1. I have installed VTKFortran using your makefile and found that the following lines were missing:

$(DOBJ)penf_allocatable_memory.o: src/third_party/PENF/src/lib/penf_allocatable_memory.F90 \
$(DOBJ)penf_global_parameters_variables.o \
$(DOBJ)penf_stringify.o
@echo $(COTEXT)
@$(FC) $(OPTSC) $< -o $@

as well as the following line below $(DOBJ)penf.o: src/third_party/PENF/src/lib/penf.F90 \:

$(DOBJ)penf_allocatable_memory.o \

2. In your 'A taste of VTKFortran' file, further to the data (e.g. those in your Wiki 'Getting-Started' page), a use penf is missing

I hope this can help others.

Thanks again and best regards.

Yannick.

[szaghi]

@Yan-44
Thank you very much, your help is appreciated.

I'll fix this ASAP.

Kind regards,
Stefano