compiler development?

[e p chandler]

I have not seen any recent versions of g95 or gfortran for WIn32. Is
something going on?

[Arjan]

> I have not seen any recent versions of g95 or gfortran for WIn32. Is
> something going on?

I was wondering either.
I fear Andy is cashing the beer-voucher that I sent him...

Arjan

[e p chandler]

As far as gfortran goes, there is nothing new for Win32 on FX's site.
I do know about www.equation.com web site. I don't understand how
their distribution of gfortran/gcc differs,but I know nothing about
parallel processing.

Perhaps I should try and build from source, but I'm using MinGW 32. So
far I've had no luck. There seem to be missing comopoents somewhere.
Apparently that is not a problem with Cygwin. I'm not eager to try to
build a crossdevelopment system on Cygwin for MinGW32. Nor am I going
to 64 bit Windows any time soon.

---- Elliot

[BobK]

Fwiw: it seems to me that the both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
gcc/gfortran at equation.com work nicely out of the box. Otoh, I've
had a good bit of trouble getting mingw-64 properly installed.The
problem may have been symlinks in the distributed tar files that I
could not set up correctly on Vista-x64. If anyone has advice or
comments, I'm listening.

[Terence]

e p chandler wrote:
> I have not seen any recent versions of g95 or gfortran for WIn32. Is
> something going on?

On this theme, has anybody tried ANY Fortran Compiler on top of a MS
Version 7 operating system?
I'm holding off of Vista because of what I hear (including from giant
hardware makers).
My local DELL office is running all the hardware demos on V7, but
still only offering boxes with Vista for delivery till end October.

We need a new box (we have running W3.1 on a 386; W95 and W98 on two
Toshibas; NT on a Pantera; Windows 2000 Professional on CAM1 hand-
built towers;.NP on a Dell laptop; nothing with Vista). We deliver
commercial Fortran-compiled big computing applications suites for all
these (same source, single compilation, but have to check everything
runs on every O/S (including DOS and DOS emulation on Macintosh). For
native Windows mode, we compile with DVF for each target separately,
(where possible), with same source but different interface library)..

[e p chandler]

I don't want to fan the flames, but....

XP broke lots of things that worked on Win95/Win98. I/O redirection
from .COM files and other things don't work properly. DVF 5 installs
but something is wrong. Lots of DOS extenders break on XP. IIRC OS/2
family apps break on Vista. So you are still running MS-Fortran 3.31
which actually does run on everything. (Except Vista-64 which AFAIK
does not support Win16 or DOS at all.)

IMO I expect that MS will find more ways to break things on Win-7. IBM
may have been a big monopolistic behemoth, but they new how to
maintain compatibility. I've heard that binaries compiled for OS/360
will still run on z/OS as long as required libraries are available.
I've heard that there are still applictions running in 1401 emulation
mode out there somewhere...... [I just thank $DEITY that I don't have
to progam in PAL for the PDP-8.]

---- E

[e p chandler]

On Sep 1, 6:08 am, Terence <tbwri...@cantv.net> wrote:

Sorry about 2nd reply, but.

Have you ever looked at Open Watcom? I realize that Fortran is
somewhat of their orphan child compared to C/C++, but except for
compiling on bare MS-DOS (requires a DOS extender?) Open Watcom
targets almost everything including OS/2. Of course Open Watcom has
its own quirks, including it's own extensions and "pragmas". Also it's
still Fortran 77 with extensions and Watcom specific extensions.

I still have no idea how it runs on Win-7.

--- Elliot