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Re: Problem compiling NONMEM with mingw gfortran 4.3.0 builds
Steve Chapel wrote:
FX Coudert wrote:
We could use official or semi-official builds of stable releases for
production, especially if those releases were well-known and used by
many users. I actually tried DJGPP builds of gfortran first, but ran
into the 127 character command line limit. One of my problems with
MinGW builds is that there are so few pre-built binaries for Windows,
and they don't seem to be very well known. I think the MinGW could
benefit users by providing pre-built binaries as DJGPP does, and
those users could in turn help MinGW by providing more extensive
testing of the releases.
I don't quite understand what you mean here. MinGW (the project) has
many binaries available for download, and they actually are quite
conservative with respect to the software they package, I think. So,
they do have well-known, stable binaries in my opinion. In fact,
they're actually to stable for you to use, right now!
It's taken a while, but I think I've figured out what's going on. MinGW
isn't releasing builds of GCC 4.x yet because of the number of
regressions, as discussed at
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/21938>. That's why
there are no stable builds of gfortran yet.
MinGW offers downloads of older versions of GCC, including g77, at their
downloads site: <http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml>. To tell you the
truth, that download site was very hard to find, and when I was first
there I found only the GCC 3.4.5 candidate builds. After some more
searching, I found that the MinGW installer makes it easy to install GCC
compilers. I just tried using MinGW-5.1.3 to download g77, and it seems
to work. I'll try to let people know about this way of getting g77 so
they don't need to keep using g77 version 2.95.
It would have been great if someone could have just told me all this at
first. Oh well, at least I know now. Is there anything else I should know?
Thanks,
Steve
The focus of folks on this list is to maintain/develop gfortran. Thats why my
attention is going to figuring out how to make your example work correctly. g77
is no longer maintained, but definitely stable. gfortran is a Fortran 95
compiler. Stay tuned!
Jerry