Re: fortran 2003 compiler
- From: Gordon Sande <g.sande@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:27:05 GMT
On 2007-03-02 09:56:55 -0400, "Beliavsky" <beliavsky@xxxxxxx> said:
On Mar 2, 8:21 am, "Tobias Burnus" <bur...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think all Fortran compiler vendors to plan to fully support Fortran
2003, it only takes time.
That is not true, I am afraid. I think Salford/Silverfrost and Lahey/
Fujitsu for Windows are in maintenance mode. Someone recently wrote
here that
"According to one of their representatives that I communicated with
recently, Lahey is getting out of the Windows compiler business."
I would bet against a Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 2003 compiler on any
platform, because they would want to amortize an investment in
developing a Fortran 2003 compiler over as many platforms as possible.
For some projects such as gfortran it depends on interest of a
developer (all do it in their spare time); their interest can be
directed by popular demand and by the number of other compilers which
support this feature. (Popular demand and many competing compilers
which support a given feature also speeds up the development for
commercial compilers.)
None of the gfortran developers are interested enough in Windows to
produce Mingw gfortran binaries in a timely manner, as Doug Cox does
for g95. Nor do I see instructions on the Gfortran wiki on how to
build the compiler from source. I will be reluctant to submit reports
against an obsolete version of the compiler.
For some Windows Fortranners, the ability to create GUI programs using
g95 or gfortran using something similar to Quickwin for DVF/CVF/IVF (I
think Absoft, Lahey, and Salford have analogous facilities) is more
important than F2003 features. I doubt the developer(s) of g95 and
gfortran want to invest their time in assisting Windows-only GUI
development. I wonder how many man-years it would take to develop
something like Quickwin for g95 and gfortran (I would want it to work
on both). I'd be willing to pitch in some money to pay a developer.
There was RealWin for Lahey and others at one point. Indowsway still
shows up on a google search.
GINO and Interactor are multiplatform. Interactor seems to have become
Winteractor. Polyhedron Software is a very constructive regular here.
Lahey provide a subset of Winteractor with their system.
That makes three solutions to the problem stated although none are free.
Two even work away from Windows for more general portability.
Absoft was first on Mac. At one point they supplied source. Making any
program for OS9 to run outside of MPW turned you into a full Mac developer
so the Absoft windowing code was helpful even if rather restricted.
Salford provide their system for both their Fortran and C systems.
If you want one of these then they are already there.
I have not looked at the state of play for tcl on Fortran but would
expect that adapting the various C setups would be very doable.
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