Travis Oliphant and I have hacked together Fortran support for distutils in the course of putting together scipy (www.scipy.org). I won't pretend its pretty, but it does seem to do the job on Linux and W2000/W98 using the mingw32 version of gcc/g77. We're also working on Sun and Irix. Basically, the static_clib has been modified to build static libraries of the fortran code that are then linked with the extension module interface (written in C). We'd like to work toward this becoming a standard part of distutils. Are others interested in this? Also, opinions on how to best pursue its inclusion are welcomed. If your interested, please grab the source version of scipy from the site and take a look at fortran_support.py, build_flib.py, build_clib_new.py, and setup.py. thanks, eric