Re: gfortran on win98

[Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle at verizon dot net>]

Theo McCloskey wrote:
> Francois - after some investigation, I've finally come to a solution that
> seems to work for me (using gfortran on Win98).
>
> I do believe it is an installation problem.
>
> I've installed gfortran under the root drive (c:\gfortran)
>
> The installation package produces the following directory structure:
> c:\gfortran
> c:\gfortran\bin
> c:\gfortran\include
> c:\gfortran\include\ssp
> c:\gfortran\include\sys
> c:\gfortran\lib
> c:\gfortran\lib\gcc
> c:\gfortran\lib\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32
> c:\gfortran\lib\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.1.0
> c:\gfortran\lib\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.1.0\include
> c:\gfortran\lib\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.1.0\install-tools
> c:\gfortran\lib\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.1.0\install-tools\include
> c:\gfortran\libexec
> c:\gfortran\libexec\gcc
> c:\gfortran\libexec\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32
> c:\gfortran\libexec\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.1.0
> c:\gfortran\libexec\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.1.0\include
> c:\gfortran\libexec\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.1.0\install-tools
>
> The following components are stored in the
> "c:\gfortran\libexec\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.1.0" directory:
>   f951.exe
>   cc1.exe
>   collect2.exe
>
> **** The Fix ****
> I recommend you move these components to the "gfortran\bin" directory. Make
> sure you have specified an appropriate PATH environment variable (SET
> PATH=%PATH%;c:\gfortran\bin).
> ***************
>
> Once I did this, it seems that I am now truely able to compile and link from
> any location (via DOS box, bat files, make, editors, etc).
Hay Theo,

Thanks for this info.  There was another user I was working with that ran into 
this and I don't have a win98 box so I could not help.  This is great!

THanks again,

Jerry