* Help for a Dummy
@ 2012-01-30 15:42 Malcolm
2012-01-30 15:48 ` Brian D. McGrew
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From: Malcolm @ 2012-01-30 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
I am keen to install and use the GNU Fortran compiler for use with my
hydrologic research. I've left the Uni (retired) and don't have
access anymore to their resources.
However, I can't find a simple explanation of (a) what programs I
need to download (b) how I set them up on my PC (running Windows
7x64). (c) how I compile and run my fortran programs. I've scanned
the gcc.pdf & gfortan.pdf, but they don't seem to help at all.
Can you please help me, or point me to someone/documentation that can?
thanks
Malcolm Jones
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* Re: Help for a Dummy
2012-01-30 15:42 Help for a Dummy Malcolm
@ 2012-01-30 15:48 ` Brian D. McGrew
2012-01-30 19:46 ` Tim Prince
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From: Brian D. McGrew @ 2012-01-30 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Malcolm, gcc-help
Malcolm,
Since you're in a Windows environment, go check out Cygwin at
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin. It's all precompiled binaries of the
GNU collection and other stuff setup for Windows.
-brian
On 1/30/12 6:43 AM, "Malcolm" <mjones_aus@exemail.com.au> wrote:
>I am keen to install and use the GNU Fortran compiler for use with my
>hydrologic research. I've left the Uni (retired) and don't have
>access anymore to their resources.
>However, I can't find a simple explanation of (a) what programs I
>need to download (b) how I set them up on my PC (running Windows
>7x64). (c) how I compile and run my fortran programs. I've scanned
>the gcc.pdf & gfortan.pdf, but they don't seem to help at all.
>Can you please help me, or point me to someone/documentation that can?
>thanks
>Malcolm Jones
>
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* Re: Help for a Dummy
2012-01-30 15:48 ` Brian D. McGrew
@ 2012-01-30 19:46 ` Tim Prince
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From: Tim Prince @ 2012-01-30 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
On 1/30/2012 8:54 AM, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Malcolm,
>
> Since you're in a Windows environment, go check out Cygwin at
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin. It's all precompiled binaries of the
> GNU collection and other stuff setup for Windows.
>
> -brian
>
> On 1/30/12 6:43 AM, "Malcolm"<mjones_aus@exemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I am keen to install and use the GNU Fortran compiler for use with my
>> hydrologic research. I've left the Uni (retired) and don't have
>> access anymore to their resources.
>> However, I can't find a simple explanation of (a) what programs I
>> need to download (b) how I set them up on my PC (running Windows
>> 7x64). (c) how I compile and run my fortran programs. I've scanned
>> the gcc.pdf& gfortan.pdf, but they don't seem to help at all.
>> Can you please help me, or point me to someone/documentation that can?
>> thanks
>> Malcolm Jones
>>
>
The Windows versions of gfortran aren't well written up. As Brian said,
cygwin can be recommended. There you have several choices (all of them
optional installations from cygwin setup):
gfortran: the 32-bit compiler which uses the cygwin libraries (runs fine
on X64). This is part of the gcc which is supported by the cygwin
mailing list. A special cygwin license governs your distribution of
applications built this way.
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gfortran: a "cross compiler" for "native" 64-bit
Windows, derived from the sourceforge mingw32 project. It links against
.dlls which cygwin setup installs in
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/
but there is no automatic library PATH setup, an obscure fact which I
haven't seen documented. As far as I know, there is no help forum for
these Windows cross compilers, but they are of reasonably high quality;
even the OpenMP implementation has become satisfactory.
A similar cross compiler for native 32-bit Windows.
--
Tim Prince
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