On 4 May 2017 at 17:56, Miles McCammon wrote: > It looks like there are several "linker options: that are not listed on the documentation page: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Link-Options.html#Link-Options > > At least the following are not described in that documentation for gfortran: > > -llibrary > -l library > Search the library named library when linking. > > -static > On systems that support dynamic linking, this prevents linking with the shared libraries. On other systems, this option has no effect. > > Those descriptions are from the gcc page. > > > The -llibrary option is used in the pymake (https://github.com/modflowpy/pymake ) for compiling MODFLOW, and the -static option is used by cross-compiling mingw64 gfortran version. > > An example makefile generated by pymake which uses the -lc in the linker is included by the USGS in MODFLOW-2005 v. 1.12.0, a copy of which is at the following address: > https://github.com/mwtoews/MODFLOW-2005/blob/release/make/makefile > > Anyways, forwarding this on so hopefully the next person isn't as confused as I was. This is explained at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Invoking-GNU-Fortran.html