HowtoSetupandConfigureanOpenSourceFortranDevelopmentEnvironmentonWindows.docx

How to Setup and Configure an Open Source Fortran Development Environment on Windows
Jihuan Tian
Saturday, December 24, 2011
We must have already been familiar with proprietary Fortran programming environments, for example,
Compaq Visual Fortran IDE (which is actually bination of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 6 IDE paq’s piler along mercial numerical libraries like IMSL by Visual Numerics and libraries for developing Windows GUI programs.
Visual Studio 2005 or above and integrated Intel piler.
Of course, these tools are so convenient that we almost have no time cost on mastering them. However, they may lead you to the following traps:
The operations, like “creating a project”, “pressing a button pile and debug”, will hide the basic and important knowledge about how to transform the source code into a final executable program and deprive you of the valuable chance to learn more advanced topics of knowledge.
For plex project structure containing many test cases, libraries and programs to piled and debugged, the convenience and “advantage” of IDE fade away and furthermore, IDE would probably be incapable of such a formidable situation.
Windows operating system is still not professional and resource-saving enough for a serious scientific high puting. Therefore, transplant of the project to Linux or UNIX-like systems may be requisite. However, your MS Studio projects can’t be d