Binaries available for gfortran
This page gathers links to all unofficial gfortran binary packages people regularly build, based on the current development gfortran source code.
Note: There do not exist any official FSF/GNU/GCC binary builds (only source packages). Most of the builds below come from gfortran maintainers but not all.
Windows
If in doubt, or if you don't know what Cygwin and MinGW are, the package for you is the MinGW ("native Windows") package!
MinGW for Win64: The Mingw-w64 project has regularly updated snapshots of compilers generating 64-bit Windows executables. They provides several compilers, which run on Windows (32-bit and 64-bit Windows), Cygwin, Linux, and Darwin/MacOS - and which generate binaries for 32bit or 64bit Windows. The file name pattern is <target>-<host>-<option-version>-<date>; thus, mingw-w64-bin_x86_64-mingw_20100527.zip is a compiler targeting 64bit Windows (mingw-w64) but also running ("host") on 64bit Windows (xx86-64-mingw); you might search for the file in Toolchains targetting Win64 (Personal Builds or Automatized Builds).
TDM GCC: MinGW/MinGW-W64 Builds
MinGW build ("native Windows" build)
Official MinGW builds (only releases), last seen was 4.7.2 (2012-11-05)
The MinGW for Win64 project has also binaries for 32bit Windows; e.g. mingw-w32-bin_i686-mingw_<date>.zip runs on and generates binaries for 32bit Windows (cf. above); you might search for the file in Toolchains targetting Win32 (Personal Builds or Automatized Builds).
Unofficial build of current development (4.8) source. Download the latest installer (dated 2013-03-01). It's very easy to use (basically, just click on the OK buttons), but some detailed info is also available. These binaries work on Windows XP and later versions.
TDM GCC: MinGW/MinGW-W64 Builds
MinGW 32/64bit builds by www.Equation.com (builds were announced at comp.lang.fortran; note - equation.com is not affiliated with any MinGW or GCC developer. Use at your own risk)
Cygwin
MacOS
Other projects packaging GCC (and gfortran) binaries for Mac include:
MacPorts (package name, e.g., "gcc48") - the fastest way to get a developer version of GCC. MacPorts comes with a packing software, but all software is compiled before installation. For the developer version, the "Portfile" is updated approx. weekly.
Fink offers GCC packages (all released versions) - similar to MacPorts, but also offers binaries; it does not have the developer versions, just the releases.
HPC offers occasional GCC builds (also developer versions) for Lion and Snow Leopard (Intel)
r.research.att.com offers builds of GCC 4.2
via Homebrew
The gfortran maintainers offer nice Apple-style installers for:
Mac OS Lion (10.7) on Intel 64-bit processors (gfortran 4.6.2): download (released on 2011-10-20)
Snow Leopard (10.6) on Intel 64-bit processors (gfortran 4.6.2): download (released on 2011-10-21)
Snow Leopard (10.6) on Intel 32-bit processors (gfortran 4.6.1): download (released on 2011-06-27)
Leopard (10.5) On Intel processors (gfortran 4.6.2): download (released 2011-10-21)
Leopard (10.5) On PowerPC processors (gfortran 4.6.2): download (released 2011-10-21)
Detailed instructions can be found here.
From time to time builds of the current development 'trunk' might be provided. Note that these come with several caveats:
- They are ephemeral; probably losing relevance after a few days.
- They are built with --enable-checking=yes (which makes them much slower than the releases).
- They are likely to exhibit unexpected behavior (in addition to the shiny new features you are testing).
Currently available:
Snow Leopard (10.6) on Intel 64-bit processors (GCC 4.7.0 2011-11-23, Rev. 181620): download
Mac OS Lion (10.7) on Intel 64-bit processors (GCC 4.7.0 2012-01-30, Rev. 183741): download
GNU/Linux
Most Linux distributions offer gfortran packages, some have also builds for the experimental versions
Nightly builds are available at:
32-bit processors (i686)
Download from gfortran.com
64-bit AMD-compatible processors (x86_64, AMD64,Intel64, em64t)
Download from gfortran.com (README, nightly builds, 4.3 to 4.9 snapshots)
gcc-4.8-infrastructure package (GCC 4.8 and later; for GCC 4.3 to 4.7 use gcc-infrastructure), which contains required libraries (GMP, MPFR, MPC, etc.) - simply unpack in the "gcc-trunk" (or "gcc-4.6" or ...) directory
To unpack .xz files: Use xzcat with tar. It is contained in pre-build xz package, if you don't have it.
Needs to be updated: Installation instructions
Building from Source
- Obtain the source code either via
unpacking a tarball
You should have the right versions of GMP, MPFR and MPC (and optionally for Graphite: CLOOG and ISL) installed, which you can download from ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/ (They can also be automatically build with GCC.)
Note: You can use ./contrib/download_prerequisites to download them.
Follow the instructions; in a nutshell, you will do
create a build directory, e.g. gcc-build underneath the source directory
go to the build directory and run configure from there; for instance: ../configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc-trunk --enable-languages=c,fortran
run make
run make install
Useful configure options: --enable-checking=release which disables some compile-time checks which slow down the compiler; --disable-bootstrap which speeds up the build but uses the system compiler and disables some consistency checks; --disable-build-poststage1-with-cxx (for 4.7 or higher) avoids building GCC with a C++ compiler, esp. useful if no C++ should be compiled; --disable-libstdcxx-pch speeds up the compilation a bit by not creating pre-compiled header files.