Disable automatic creation of .mod files

[llamm-de]

It seems like the app provides some functionality, which automatically creates .mod files as soon as one opens a module source file.
This can get really annoying if you are working on a large project with lots of modules, which are not supposed to live within the same directory as the source files (e.g. by using CMake's Fortran_MODULE_DIRECTORY flag).

Is there a way to turn this automatic creation off? If not, I would like to suggest to implement such a feature.

Thank's for your help.

[han190]

Hi, go to settings.json and type the following

// Fortran
"fortran.gfortranExecutable": "",

It should work.

[llamm-de]

Hey,

thanks for this small hack. Unfortunately, the solution comes with the drawback of not getting any compiler errors displayed within vs code. It would therefore be great, if there would be another solution.

[pedro-ricardo]

@llamm-de, .mod are generated by the compiler so .. to prevent that, there should be a flag for it. But I didn't found it ...
Therefore the hack I use is to set the -J compiler option that controls the output folder for .mod files ...

"fortran.linterExtraArgs": [
        "-J/dev/null"
    ]

By setting this to /tmp or /dev/null you will achieve what you want ... I think 😄

Although for best use of the linter, you shoud set the .mod file creation to your code's bin folder and also add a -I flag to the same folder. This way the compiler can see other modules and correctly show errors and warnings of their usage.

[gnikit]

@llamm-de did that solve your problem? If so are you happy with closing the issue?

[gnikit]

I suspect this issue has been resolved, so I will be closing it. Feel free to reopen if you are still having problems.