f2c is a Fortran-to-C converter. This package includes libf2c, which must be linked to the resulting C code. Thus the general idea is f2c foo.f gcc foo.c -lf2c Or use the fc script provided in the docs directory. Beware, fc is also a bash builtin. If combining with gfortran, you may want to use the gfortran -ff2c option. See the gfortran man page.