something like MS Visual Studio for Fortran?

Following up on the recent thread about c versus Fortran, speed,
efficiency, etc, someone mentioned that there is no equivalent of
MS Visual Studio to use in compiling Fortran dll's under Windows.
I use Linux, so I would have no idea whether this is true or
not, but I would really doubt it. Is there an equivalent of
MS Visual Studio for Windows/Fortran?

Thanks, Randy

On Tue, 31 May 2005 08:41:06 -0700, Randall Mackie <rlmackie862@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Following up on the recent thread about c versus Fortran, speed,
>efficiency, etc, someone mentioned that there is no equivalent of
>MS Visual Studio to use in compiling Fortran dll's under Windows.
>I use Linux, so I would have no idea whether this is true or
>not, but I would really doubt it. Is there an equivalent of
>MS Visual Studio for Windows/Fortran?

Whoever mentioned that is mistaken.  If you're looking for a Fortran compile
r
that works in the current Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, Intel Visual Fortran 
is
one and Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran is another.  There are other compiler vendors,
including Absoft, which provide their own IDE.  The old Compaq Visual Fortra
n
worked with the older Visual Studio '98.

Steve Lionel
Software Products Division
Intel Corporation
Nashua, NH

User communities for Intel Software Development Products
http://softwareforums.intel.com/
Intel Fortran Support
http://developer.intel.com/software/products/support/

Randall Mackie wrote:
>
> Following up on the recent thread about c versus Fortran, speed,
> efficiency, etc, someone mentioned that there is no equivalent of
> MS Visual Studio to use in compiling Fortran dll's under Windows.

One exception might be under a "dos" window - a sngl command,

> df /dll  *.for

creates a dll containing all .for files in the working dir. VS is not
out of the loop completely - that's where you cut & paste "dllexport"
directives to files that need them.

"Steve Lionel" <Steve.Lionel@REMOVEintelME.com> wrote in message
 news:ma6p91pnk7u6ee5sgc6ha58gh8n9pvgjed@
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> On Tue, 31 May 2005 08:41:06 -0700, Randall Mackie
<rlmackie862@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>
> Whoever mentioned that is mistaken.  If you're looking for a Fortran
compiler
> that works in the current Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, Intel Visual
Fortran is
> one and Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran is another.  There are other compiler
vendors,
> including Absoft, which provide their own IDE.  The old Compaq Visual
Fortran
> worked with the older Visual Studio '98.

The 'old' CVF remains far more popular than the wanabe IVF. Besides IVF is
a .NET imposter unlike Lahey/Fujitsu and Salford Fortran .NET.

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