Re: question about fortran on the new intel Mac

[Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct dot lsu dot edu>]

On Apr 7, 2006, at 09:31:03, Paul Thomas wrote:

> Peter
>
> I have cc'd your question to the fortran list; I am afraid that the  
> mysteries of the old Macs were already beyond me and I know nothing  
> about the new ones.
> > Dear Paul,
> >
> >
> > I have come across your postings on the GCC fortran page and I was  
> > wondering if you could comment on the availability of a fortran  
> > compiler that runs on the new intel-based Apple Macbook machines.   
> > I have the impression from the pages that there is a version that  
> > is available and is running, with some problems. Is this indeed  
> > the case, and if so, where would I be able to access this version?  
> > I need to run fortran codes and therefore need to decide whether  
> > to get one of these new Apple machines, or whether to try to get  
> > the previous Motorola-based model.
> >
> >
> > Any advice you can offer would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Peter Martinez
> Can anybody help Peter, please?

I have gfortran working, starting from the SVN version and applying  
some patches.  It's not clean, and I hope that the official version  
will work in a few days/weeks.  There are two or three small  
problems, solutions for these are known and patches exist, but they  
have somehow not yet been officially applied.  This version is  
available from gcc.gnu.org, following the usual instructions about  
accessing the SVN repository.  You will have to build and install the  
compiler yourself, which requires a C compiler, but is otherwise not  
too complicated.

Intel offers C, C++, and Fortran compilers for Intel-based Macs.   
These are currently evaluation versions.  You access them from  
www.intel.com, go to the download center, then choose "Software  
Products".  They offer free evaluations licenses for one month.

-erik

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