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Specifications and Reference

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This section contains the specifications the components of the Fortran Package Manager.

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The generated API documentation of the fpm internals can be found here.

• Manifest reference
  • Project name
  • Project version
  • Project license
  • Project maintainer
  • Project author
  • Project copyright
  • Project description
  • Project categories
  • Project keywords
  • Project homepage
  • Project targets
    • Library configuration
    • 📦 Build types
    • 🛠️ Platform support
    • 📂 Installation layout
      • Include directory
    • Executable targets
    • Example targets
    • Test targets
  • Link external libraries
  • Use system-installed modules
  • Automatic target discovery
  • Fortran features
    • Implicit typing
    • Implicit external
    • Source form
  • Specifying dependencies
    • Dependencies from version control systems
    • Dependencies from a registry
      • Namespace
      • Version
    • Local dependencies
    • Dependency-specific macro setting
    • Development dependencies
  • Installation configuration
    • Custom module directory
  • Preprocessor configuration
    • Specifying the preprocessor
    • CPP conditional compilation
      • Supported directives
      • Usage with manifest macros
      • Macro evaluation rules
      • Value comparisons
  • Additional free data field
• Features and Profiles
  • Quick start
  • CLI usage
    • Using profiles
    • Using features
    • Mutual exclusivity
    • Combining with other flags
  • Defining features
  • Configurable properties
    • Compiler flags
    • Build configuration
    • Fortran configuration
    • Library configuration
    • Dependencies
    • Executables, examples, and tests
    • Preprocessor configuration
    • Installation and metadata
  • Platform-specific features
    • Compiler-specific features
    • OS-specific features
    • Resolution order
  • Profiles
    • Built-in and default profiles
      • The default profile
    • Custom profiles
  • Dependency features and profiles
    • Dependency features
    • Dependency profiles
    • Platform-specific dependency features
  • Examples
    • Basic debug and release features
    • Parallel computing features
    • Platform-dependent features
• Built-in dependencies (“Metapackages”)
  • fortran-lang Standard Library (stdlib)
  • fortran-lang MINPACK
  • OpenMP
  • MPI
  • HDF5
  • NetCDF
  • BLAS
• The blas metapackage will automatically discover and link against BLAS libraries. The search order is Apple Accelerate, Intel MKL, OpenBLAS and finally usual BLAS.
• compile_commands.json
  • Purpose
  • How It Works
  • Example
  • Working with the File
  • Limitations
• API documentation

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