Re: g77 on cygwin64

[LMH <lmh_users-groups@molconn.com>]

What host operating system are you running cygwin on? Do you have 
examples of your old g77 applications that are already compiled that you 
can test on your current system?

There are several options. Compiling g77 is one of them, but you would 
need the proper runtime components as well. It is also possible to have 
more than one cygwin installation. You can have an older x86 cygwin 
installed that still has g77. The question is weather or not an app 
compiled with g77 under 32-bit cygwin will run on your OS. You also 
would not be able to run both versions of cygwin at the same time.

A think a bit more information would be useful.

This is the gnu archive page for gcc version 3.4.6, which I think is the 
one that is most compatible with the gcc 4 stuff.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.4.6/

If I remember right, you could not compile with 3.4.4 once your cygwin 
had been updated to gcc 4. There were some collisions and header issues. 
I think that had been fixed by 3.4.6, but cygwin had moved on from gcc 3 
by then and they never released a package past 3.4.4.

I think you can get it compiled and it would probably be better to 
consult with the gnu message board about that, since that's there thing. 
If you think it would be useful to try installing a second cygwin, I can 
send you some notes for that.

LMH


Scott T. Marshall wrote:
>
> On 2/12/2014 12:28 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12/02/2014 04:54, Scott T. Marshall wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> First a compliment: I recently went from the old x86 version of cygwin
>>> to cygwin64. I was pleased to see that many of my perl scripts run about
>>> twice as fast. Thanks!
>>>
>>> My question: Would it be possible to have the old g77 fortran compiler
>>> as an optional install for cygwin64? I realize that g77 is now
>>> deprecated by gfortran, but I have a lot of old fortran 77 code that
>>> does not compile correctly with gfortran. Since I am not a fortran coder
>>> (I mainly use interpreted languages), I do not have the skills to figure
>>> out what the issues with gfortran are. It would immensely useful to have
>>> a cygwin64 g77 as an optional install.
>>>
>>> If this is not an option, could anyone maybe point me in the right
>>> direction as to how to compile g77 myself? I attempted to do so with an
>>> old g77 from gcc version 3.4.6, but the makefiles do not recognize the
>>> uname of cygwin64, and I'm not sure of what compiler flags to use, so
>>> the build always fails.
>>>
>>> Any tips/suggestions would be appreciated.
>>> Cheers,
>>> -Scott
>>>
>>
>> have you tested with -std=legacy ?
>>
>> '-std=STD'
>>      Specify the standard to which the program is expected to conform,
>>      which may be one of 'f95', 'f2003', 'f2008', 'gnu', or 'legacy'.
>>      The default value for STD is 'gnu', which specifies a superset of
>>      the Fortran 95 standard that includes all of the extensions
>>      supported by GNU Fortran, although warnings will be given for
>>      obsolete extensions not recommended for use in new code.  The
>>      'legacy' value is equivalent but without the warnings for obsolete
>>      extensions, and may be useful for old non-standard programs. The
>>      'f95', 'f2003' and 'f2008' values specify strict conformance to the
>>      Fortran 95, Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008 standards, respectively;
>>      errors are given for all extensions beyond the relevant language
>>      standard, and warnings are given for the Fortran 77 features that
>>      are permitted but obsolescent in later standards. '-std=f2008ts'
>>      allows the Fortran 2008 standard including the additions of the
>>      Technical Specification (TS) 29113 on Further Interoperability of
>>      Fortran with C.
>>
> Yup, I tried that compiler flag (-std=legacy) with gfortran. No luck.
> Back when cygwin was x86 only and had g77, the same code compiled
> correctly and ran fine. I have the same issues on Linux boxes, so the
> gfortran issue is not unique to cygwin. The solution I found was to dig
> up the old binaries for my Linux boxes and install g77 on them. I don't
> think I can do this for cygwin since g77 was never a part of cygwin64.
> Would it be very difficult to take the old g77 source and recompile it
> for cygwin64? Has anyone successfully done this before?
> Cheers
> -Scott
>
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