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Al Greynolds

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Mar 19, 2010, 12:39:45 PM3/19/10
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Is there any other source for up-to-date binary Windows ("native" not
Cygwin) installations of Gfortran instead of the ones provided by
equation.com?

The problem is that McAfee (FreeScan) detects a virus in their weekly
downloads (going back to late last year). In all likelyhood its a
false positive but in my communication with them they were somewhat
evasive, putting all the blame on MacAfees "toy algorithm" since
Microsoft's Securtity Center did not detect a problem. Now McAfee has
been at virus protection far longer than Microsoft, so I suggested
they file a standard "dispute" report with McAfee and at least perform
a FreeScan on their build machine. They would not confirm that they
did either.

Al Greynolds
www.ruda-cardinal.com

Jason Blevins

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Mar 19, 2010, 12:51:37 PM3/19/10
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On 2010-03-19, Al Greynolds <awgre...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Is there any other source for up-to-date binary Windows ("native" not
> Cygwin) installations of Gfortran instead of the ones provided by
> equation.com?

There are a couple of other Windows builds listed here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries

Jason

Al Greynolds

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Mar 19, 2010, 1:13:13 PM3/19/10
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On Mar 19, 9:51 am, Jason Blevins <jrble...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> On 2010-03-19, Al Greynolds <awgreyno...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Is there any other source for up-to-date binary Windows ("native" not
> > Cygwin) installations of Gfortran instead of the ones provided by
> > equation.com?
>
> There are a couple of other Windows builds listed here:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries
>
> Jason

This is where I used to get my installations but they are no longer
being kept up-to-date: no latest 4.4.3 release and no 4.5 "beta".

Jason Blevins

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Mar 19, 2010, 1:23:14 PM3/19/10
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On 2010-03-19, Al Greynolds <awgre...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 9:51 am, Jason Blevins <jrble...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> On 2010-03-19, Al Greynolds <awgreyno...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Is there any other source for up-to-date binary Windows ("native" not
>> > Cygwin) installations of Gfortran instead of the ones provided by
>> > equation.com?
>>
>> There are a couple of other Windows builds listed here:
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries
>
> This is where I used to get my installations but they are no longer
> being kept up-to-date: no latest 4.4.3 release and no 4.5 "beta".

There are several links there. This one, in particular,
has up to date builds of 4.5 from yesterday:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

I don't have any experience with any of these, but this page seems
to have some installation instructions:

http://mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

--
Jason Blevins
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, Duke University
http://jblevins.org/

Al Greynolds

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Mar 19, 2010, 1:47:14 PM3/19/10
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Thanks Jason. I hadn't checked the MinGW site for quite some time.

Al

none

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Mar 19, 2010, 3:40:27 PM3/19/10
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AVG also flags that there is a virus, but I chose (a) to ignore the
message and keep the file and (b) not install the file until I *really*
needed it. With two virus engines detecting a problem I'm rather more
nervous about installing it!

user1

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Mar 19, 2010, 5:14:29 PM3/19/10
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I seem to remember AVG saying something was wrong in gcov.exe. I'm not
sure what gcov.exe does, but I deleted it with no apparent ill effect.
I'm not sure if the problem was limited to the equation.com builds.


Jerry DeLisle

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Mar 21, 2010, 2:33:47 AM3/21/10
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I do the Cygwin binary at the above link and update it roughly monthly. I may
be a bit behind. If you do need a more recent version of 4.5, just drop me a
note and I will build latest and put it on the server.

Regards,

Jerry

Tim Prince

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Mar 21, 2010, 8:59:25 AM3/21/10
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Neither do I understand why your build of the 10091119 doesn't qualify
as a "4.5 beta," although that's a rougher than average measure of a
month. It worked OK for me.
The 20100304 snapshot builds and tests easily. Are there improvements
in gfortran since then which would justify attempting to overcome the
obstacles added since then?

--
Tim Prince

baf

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Mar 21, 2010, 2:27:32 PM3/21/10
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Exactly which "link" are you doing the build for? The wiki has a link
to the mingw build dated april-09 (version 4.5.0 200904210) which is
nearly a year old. If this is not the "best" link to be using anymore,
perhaps that could be changed or deleted and a link to the build you are
actively updating (thanks by the way!) be added to that wiki page.

Jerry DeLisle

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Mar 21, 2010, 11:29:31 PM3/21/10
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I think I am passed those obstacles and some good bugs have been fixed. I
started the build tonight. It does take a good half a day or more to build. :)

Jerry

Jerry DeLisle

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Mar 21, 2010, 11:37:45 PM3/21/10
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I do the Cygwin which is here:

http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~coudert/gfortran/gfortran-4.5-Cygwin-i686.tar.bz2

I am also working on getting a mingw build going. I have not overcome a few
obstacles on that one. However, the process of getting all of the tool chain
set up is happening.

Regards,

Jerry


Jerry DeLisle

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Mar 22, 2010, 10:25:12 PM3/22/10
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The Cygwin binary of gfortran has been updated to latest 4.5 today. I updated
the wiki to reflect this.

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries

Regards,

Jerry

Arjen Markus

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Mar 23, 2010, 6:02:16 AM3/23/10
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> I'm not sure if the problem was limited to the equation.com builds.- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven -
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> - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -

gcov determines the test coverage - so what portion of the code has
actually
been run. Its use requires a specific compiler option.

Regards,

Arjen

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