Re: Fortran compiler

["Holcomb, Katherine A (kah3f)" <kah3f@virginia.edu>]

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Please try reading my instructions, see whether it helps to clarify things.  MinGW and such don’t directly have Fortran.  You first install MSYS2 and MinGW and you have to then install Fortran as a package.

https://learning.rc.virginia.edu/courses/fortran_introduction/setting_up <https://learning.rc.virginia.edu/courses/fortran_introduction/setting_up>/

I have not tried downloading from Arjen’s suggested site so I can’t comment on the bad link.  It should be safe to install 10.3 and there is bound to be a way to bypass (“whitelist”) the executable.  

> On Apr 26, 2022, at 9:28 AM, Elliot Cramer <elliottcramer@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> On 4/26/2022 7:55 AM, Holcomb, Katherine A (kah3f) wrote:
>> Hi Elliot,
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>> Did you look at my online instructions?
> NO
>>  You can also use a prebuilt distribution as Arjen suggests.  If you’re not actually on the mailing list but just sending to it so didn’t see that, he recommended http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=fortran <http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=fortran>.
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> 11.2 is a bad link.  When I download 10.3 I get a message
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> Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.
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> It doesn't give me an options to accept it and  I am clueless I used avast on windows 7 and I guess I should load it
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> The other sites that Jerry mentioned don't seem tohave gfortran  on them
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> or this one: 
>         https://www.mingw-w64.org/ <https://www.mingw-w64.org/> 
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> or this one: 
>         https://www.cygwin.com/ <https://www.cygwin.com/>
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> Mandaicrosoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.
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>> You would still need to make sure your PATH is set so that gfortran and the other binaries you’d need are visible.
> I don't know how to do this;  I seem not to have access to the c: folder as I did in windows 7.  I'm just getting a windows 10 computer going
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>> Unless you are adept with the Windows command line,
> I've used it in the past.  I literally spent hours downloading intel Fortran and don't have a clue as to how to use it.  I see why it is free.  You guys must have spent a great deal of time and effort developing gfortran and it sounds wonderful.  It would be great if  there was a way of making it available to unsophisticated windows users.  I naively though I could just download load it and be off.  I appreciate you guys trying to help me
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>> you should look into a graphical development environment.
> I think it is beyond my capabilities
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> Thanks,
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> Elliot
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>>  The problem with those is that most don’t support Fortran well or at all.  The two free, cross-platform ones I know that do are Geany and Code::Blocks.  Geany is more like a nice editor with some buttons for compiling and running (and it can run a Makefile) whereas Code::Blocks is closer to a traditional IDE.  Both may expect you to be using gfortran and would require some configuration if you wanted to use the Intel oneAPI option.  Easy to do, but an extra step to keep in mind.
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>> VSCode is all the rage but I fought with it just to try to use it for C++ and didn’t want even to try Fortran.
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>>> On Apr 25, 2022, at 9:57 PM, Elliot Cramer <elliottcramer@bellsouth.net <mailto:elliottcramer@bellsouth.net>> wrote:
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>>> Windows 10; how can we do this?
>>> Elliot
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>>> On 4/23/2022 10:00 PM, Jerry D wrote:
>>>> Elliot,
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>>>> Let me know what system you want the compiler to run on?
>>>> 
>>>> Linux, Windows, PowerPC?
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>>>> I can guide you through installing on some of these.
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>>>> Usually we build it from source. However, many linux distributions
>>>> have packages you can install easily.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Jerry
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>>>> On 4/23/22 9:31 AM, Elliot Cramer wrote:
>>>>> A few years ago I started converting a large old Fortran program
>>>>> which I had running on an IBM 7040 and then on a 360. I have a
>>>>> copy of Lahey Fortran and ran into a compiler bug and gave up on
>>>>> it. How can I download your compiler and get documentation. I
>>>>> don't understand what I've read on the internetThanksElliot
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android
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