NREL / ROSCO

Hi, I was using the flang compiler on Frontier today (which I was using for openfast) but I got errors in ROSCO when using the same compiler. I noticed in the cmake that ROSCO only supports GNU and Intel compilers:

ROSCO/rosco/controller/CMakeLists.txt

Line 44 in b994e4d

if (${CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER_ID} STREQUAL "GNU")

. I was hoping there was a path towards supporting flang so that I don't have to mix compilers. Thanks!

Hi,

Interesting! I'm not that familiar with Flang and may not have the bandwidth to tackle (and, mainly, test a fix for) this issue very soon, but there's definitely a path towards its support. The process should be

Adding these lines to the ROSCO CMakeLists.txt that you linked.
Adding the SysFlangLinux.f90 file to the ROSCO sys files
Tidying up the sys file to match the other in ROSCO, which mainly consists of removing some extra submodules and compiler directives. I did a quick diff between the OpenFAST and ROSCO SysFiles.

I hope this helps. I'll leave this open until we're supporting Flang. If you're able to get to it before we do, we'd greatly appreciate any tips or a PR.

Best, Dan

Thanks for answering so quickly! If I get a chance I might give your suggestion a shot.

@dzalkind I needed this for frontier and I have a working version. But it's for ROSCO 2.7 because those are the input files I was given. Here's the branch: https://github.com/marchdf/ROSCO/tree/rosco-27-flang. Let me know if that "looks" ok and I can try doing the same for the dev version of ROSCO and submit a PR.

Thanks, Marc! It looks okay to me. Ideally, we'd figure out how to keep these lines as they are ROSCO's main debugging output.

Apparently there are a bunch of Flang flavors out there, with a new one due in March. Maybe it will resolve the issue you raised. Which Flang compiler you are using on frontier?

Yes I definitely think the eventual PR should have those lines in there. I am going to work with someone who knows fortran/flang better than me and see if we can resolve this. I am a bit confused by the flang landscape. Let me get back to on what kind of version I am using.

Flang support