From: Lou Umscheid <umscheid@verizon.net>
To: Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Fortran Installation
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 16:42:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35a991c4-9831-ed6e-5c21-18afe56691e3@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2f58d9a-0d84-a9a1-595f-93a39fde307a@Shaw.ca>
On 1/3/2021 4:03 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-01-03 12:18, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 1/3/2021 1:41 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2021-01-03 11:37, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>> On 2021-01-03 11:22, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>> On 1/3/2021 12:28 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>>>> On 2021-01-03 09:44, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>>>> I would like to install Fortran on newly installed Cygwin64 on
>>>>>>> my new LG laptop. I did this 9+ years ago for Cygwin32 on my
>>>>>>> Dell T1600 which is now fading. The process 9 years ago was long
>>>>>>> and hard over several weeks with many fallbacks and redo's. I am
>>>>>>> competent in Fortran programming but have only a minimum
>>>>>>> knowledge of Linux/Unix. Can anyone point me to a guide (I
>>>>>>> searched but could not find any) to installing Fortran,
>>>>>>> including which files to download, PATH, alias changes, etc. I
>>>>>>> know it is a lot to ask, but ANY help would be appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To get a list of manually picked and installed packages in your
>>>>>> current Cygwin installation (excluding library packages except if
>>>>>> they are devel or doc packages) run the following command against
>>>>>> your current installation:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ awk '$3 && ($1 !~ /^lib/ || $1 ~ /-(devel|doc)/) {print $1}' \
>>>>>> /etc/setup/installed.db | tee cygwin-packages-picked.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * transfer the file cygwin-packages-picked.txt to your new system
>>>>>> e.g. your Windows account Downloads folder on your new system,
>>>>>> * download https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe to e.g. your
>>>>>> Windows account Downloads folder on your new system,
>>>>>> * run setup-x86_64 on your new system with no selections to
>>>>>> install a basic Cygwin installation for you, then
>>>>>> * start a Cygwin shell in a terminal session, and
>>>>>> * rerun the Cygwin setup program with e.g.:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ cygstart /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/setup-x86_64 \
>>>>>> -P "`cat
>>>>>> /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/cygwin-packages-picked.txt`"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to start installing the manually picked packages you had on your
>>>>>> old system (dependencies will be automatically pulled in):
>>>>>> * you *MUST* exit your Cygwin shell and terminal, and ensure that
>>>>>> you have no other Cygwin processes still running, before allowing
>>>>>> the Cygwin setup program to proceed; and
>>>>>> * wait patiently for all the package downloads, installations,
>>>>>> and post-install scripts to run to completion, before trying to
>>>>>> do anything more under Cygwin on your new system.
>>>>
>>>>> wow; thanks for quick response. I tried running your first command
>>>>> but got
>>>>> the message:
>>>>>
>>>>> awk: fatal: cannot open file ' /etc/setup/installed.db' for
>>>>> reading (No such file or directory) >
>>>>> The file seems to be there and I checked my input so I do not know
>>>>> what when wrong. Any suggestions?
>
>>>> File name shown is ' /etc/setup/installed.db' - includes a leading
>>>> space - do not use any quotes or add spaces in file names - or just
>>>> paste the second line at the end of the first line, with an
>>>> (unquoted) space between if required.
>>>
>>> ...and remove any \ continuation escape if you paste the lines
>>> together - that may well have been your issue!
>> Another question, if I may: does your procedure install both Fortran and
>> Dislin which are installed on the T1600? I do not see them in
>> cygwin-packages-picked.txt.
>
> The Cygwin Fortran package is gcc-fortran (gfortran/f95 symlink): you
> should see this unless you have been using a proprietary closed source
> compiler.
> It looks like Dislin is a proprietary closed source plotting package
> which you will have to find, acquire, install, and configure
> separately, or migrate settings from your old system.
>
There is a gcc4-fortran listed; so is that OK? And the old 32 bit vs new
64 bit is not a problem?
DISLIN is a free scientific plotting package(www.dislin.de). They have a
download for 64 bit Cygwin so I hope that will work. Lou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-03 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <b3d295a7-b7d9-9b33-0391-cc33bb39c029.ref@verizon.net>
2021-01-03 16:44 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 17:11 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-04 0:19 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-04 8:42 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-05 14:18 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 17:20 ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-03 17:28 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-03 18:22 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 18:27 ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-03 18:37 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-03 18:41 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-03 18:58 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 19:18 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 21:03 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-03 21:42 ` Lou Umscheid [this message]
2021-01-03 22:59 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-04 0:29 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-04 6:04 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-04 6:48 ` David Billinghurst
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