[Bug fortran/35916] New: problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista

[Bug fortran/35916] New: problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista

[DHConsultancy at skynet dot be]

I wanted to upgrade (Windows Vista) from 4.3.0 (20071017) to the latest stable
4.3.x The Windows installer apparently is for 4.4.0. After installing it, I get
the following error when compiling a simple program that worked fine under
4.3.0:

gfortran: CreateProcess: No such file or directory

Do you have a solution for this, or at least a pointer to the latest stable
4.3.x installer for Vista?

Thnx in advance

PS: this is a critical problem for me, I build virtally all my applications
with gfortran and need to deliver one in the next few days...


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           Summary: problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.4.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P3
         Component: fortran
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: DHConsultancy at skynet dot be


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[Bug fortran/35916] problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #1 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-04-12 18:08 -------
IIRC the driver does not relocate correctly under Vista.


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[Bug fortran/35916] problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista

[brian at dessent dot net]

------- Comment #2 from brian at dessent dot net  2008-04-13 00:06 -------
Subject: Re:  problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista

pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:

> IIRC the driver does not relocate correctly under Vista.

The Vista shell seems to populate argv[0] differently than previous
versions, so the relocate machinery in the driver can't determine
GCC_EXEX_PREFIX.  Workarounds are:

- use a shell other than CMD.EXE
- give the full path to the binary when invoking it from CMD.EXE (even
if its in PATH), or write a .bat/.cmd to do as such
- add $libexec/gcc/$target/$version dir to PATH


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[Bug fortran/35916] problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista

[DHConsultancy at skynet dot be]

------- Comment #3 from DHConsultancy at skynet dot be  2008-04-13 16:11 -------
Subject: Re:  problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista

I used your second option with the batch file as follows:
- I renamed gfortran.exe to gfortran4.0.0.exe
- I put a one-line batch file gfortran.bat in directory
  C:\Program Files\gfortran\bin      content is:
"C:\Program Files\gfortran\bin\gfortran4.4.0" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

That seems to do the trick for now, and it means I don't have the modify 
my make files.

An obvious limitations is that this allows only for 9 command line 
parameters.

Nevertheless, I think I can live with this for a while until a patch is 
available, thank you very much.


I am very impressed with the bug tracking system, and the team that 
handles it. I've posted some Vista problems before, which have been 
dealt with very promptly, resulting in an almost immediate new release.

Nevertheless, may I make a few suggestions?

- please keep the installers for the previous stable versions available, 
so that it is possible to regress to a version that worked; on the Wiki 
pages, only the last version is available, and that usually is an 
experimental one. Maybe I missed something and older versions are still 
available somewhere, but then this is not obvious.

- Much to my regret and undoubtedly to many others as well, Vista is 
here to stay; I didn't even have the option to install XP on my new 
laptop, and XP distribution will cease more or less soon anyway.
So I would strongly suggest to perform the same severe testing for Vista 
as you undoubtedly do for XP.



I am trying to convince my international colleagues to switch from g77 
to gfortran. Many of them still use g77, even though it is no longer 
supported or even officially distributed (you wouldn't believe what some 
of them do to install g77!).
However, some large Fortran libraries which were built a decade or so 
ago for g77, are still very much in use, with very little chance of them 
ever being updated. I have tried to build one of these from source, with 
the provided make files, using gfortran, but gave up very quickly after 
being inundated with errors and warnings.

In my experience, one of the main differences is the definition of 
structures, and the structure syntax (e.g. the use of "%" instead of 
"."). Is there a way (compiler option or something) to compile old code 
with old structure definitions, using gfortran, and without replacing 
them in the source code?


Once again, thank you very much for the valuable service you provide, 
and keep up the good work!


Thank you in advance,

Daniel Heynderickx



brian at dessent dot net wrote:
> ------- Comment #2 from brian at dessent dot net  2008-04-13 00:06 -------
> Subject: Re:  problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista
> 
> pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> 
>> IIRC the driver does not relocate correctly under Vista.
> 
> The Vista shell seems to populate argv[0] differently than previous
> versions, so the relocate machinery in the driver can't determine
> GCC_EXEX_PREFIX.  Workarounds are:
> 
> - use a shell other than CMD.EXE
> - give the full path to the binary when invoking it from CMD.EXE (even
> if its in PATH), or write a .bat/.cmd to do as such
> - add $libexec/gcc/$target/$version dir to PATH
> 
> 


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[Bug fortran/35916] problem running gfortran 4.4.0 in Vista

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #4 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-04-16 17:48 -------
*** Bug 35958 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[steven at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #5 from steven at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-04-16 21:02 -------
This will probably only be fixed once a gfortran developer gets access to
Vista...


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[brian at dessent dot net]

------- Comment #6 from brian at dessent dot net  2008-04-20 08:28 -------
Subject: Re:  problem running GCC under Vista with relocated 
 directory

As pointed out in <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2008-03/msg00120.html>,
config/mh-mingw contains BOOT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS.  Does this
setting get applied only when building gcc, or does it apply to target
libraries too?  Because there are places in libiberty (e.g.
make-relative-prefix.c) where access() is called, and so libiberty needs
to be built with -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS if it is to contain the Vista
workaround.

If the above host fragment only applies to gcc, then I think it will
still be necessary to override BOOT_CFLAGS and CFLAGS when invoking
make.

Brian


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[brian at dessent dot net]

------- Comment #7 from brian at dessent dot net  2008-04-20 08:44 -------
Subject: Re:  problem running GCC under Vista with relocated 
 directory

er, I mean s/target library/host library/


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[bartoldeman at users dot sourceforge dot net]

------- Comment #8 from bartoldeman at users dot sourceforge dot net  2008-04-24 17:41 -------
I submitted a patch to MinGW to work around the problem (in crt1.o and crt2.o):
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.phpfunc=detail&aid=1951037&group_id=2435&atid=302435


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #9 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-06-03 04:30 -------
*** Bug 36417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #10 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-06-03 04:32 -------
Oh this explains why the PS3 toolchain works, we override access in libiberty
to and out the the bit.


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net]

------- Comment #11 from dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net  2008-06-04 08:22 -------
This fixes for me on Vista host.  Can someone confirm?

config/ChangeLog

        PR35916
        * mh-mingw (CFLAGS): Add -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS.


Index: config/mh-mingw
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--- config/mh-mingw     (revision 136350)
+++ config/mh-mingw     (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 # Add -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS to enable the built compiler to work on Windows
 # Vista (see PR33281 for details).
 BOOT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS
+CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[dannysmith at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #12 from dannysmith at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-06-05 03:46 -------
Subject: Bug 35916

Author: dannysmith
Date: Thu Jun  5 03:45:41 2008
New Revision: 136389

URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?root=gcc&view=rev&rev=136389
Log:
        PR driver/35916
        * mh-mingw (CFLAGS): Add -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS.

Modified:
    trunk/config/ChangeLog
    trunk/config/mh-mingw


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[Bug driver/35916] problem running GCC under Vista with relocated directory

[dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net]

------- Comment #13 from dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net  2008-06-05 06:23 -------
Closing, as this is fixed on trunk. 


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