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<p>I spent some more time looking into Fortran options for Windows.
Here is where we are:</p>
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<p>1. If you want a free Fortran compiler there is one available at
this link. <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fortran.com/the-fortran-company-homepage/whats-new/g95-windows-download/">http://www.fortran.com/the-fortran-company-homepage/whats-new/g95-windows-download/</a></p>
<p>If you decide to install this you need to make sure and install
it in a install directory path does not contain any space. I
installed it in c:\g95. The installation program will attempt to
modify your executable path. Once I had it installed correctly it
worked perfectly.</p>
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<p>2. Now, you can edit programs using Notepad++ or any other
editor you want. Notepad++ is particularly easy to use and one
that we generally show students in CSC 204. <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org/">https://notepad-plus-plus.org/</a></p>
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<p><b>With an editor and g95 you have everything you really need to
edit, compile, and run fortran using the command prompt in
Windows. </b><br>
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<p>3. The next step up if you want a bigger IDE is to move to
CodeBlocks. I have not used CodeBlocks. I Hear it's pretty
good. If you already have the g95 compiler installed correctly,
the CodeBlocks documentations says that it will detect it and use
it.</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.codeblocks.org/">http://www.codeblocks.org/</a><br>
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<p>note: CodeBlocks (and g95) are going to install tiny portions of
the gnu linux OS onto your system.)</p>
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<p>4. So if you must use Eclipse for your IDE then we need to take
a different path. Eclipse wants you to install a "larger" unix
minimal environment on your hard drive including the fortran, C,
and C++ compilers. I haven't been able to test this completely
because I don't have enough free space on the Windows partition of
my hard drive. Anyway,</p>
<p>Go and install the full Eclipse Photran INCLUDING the CDT. <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eclipse.org/photran/">https://www.eclipse.org/photran/</a></p>
<p>here are complete <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/PTP/photran/documentation/photran8installation">installation
directions.</a> The additional instructions for Windows explain
how to install Cygwin (the Linux Environment) including the
compilers. <br>
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<p>So those are your options -- or you could just use cobra -- which
is available from any place where you have network connectivity.<br>
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Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pounds_aj@mercer.edu">pounds_aj@mercer.edu</a>)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
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