help in creating gfortran windows binaries

Vivek Rao vivekrao4@yahoo.com
Fri Jan 26 14:40:00 GMT 2007


--- Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle@verizon.net> wrote:

> Vivek Rao wrote:
> > FX Coudert wrote on comp.lang.fortran that Windows
> > binaries would be created more often if someone
> would
> > 
> > "  a) be sent the scripts that I use to build
> gfortran
> > windows binaries 
> >      and get access to the website where we
> usually
> > post our binaries, 
> > 
> >   b) donate a remotely accessible account on a
> Windows
> > XP computer," 
> > 
> > Regarding (a), I suggest that the scripts be
> posted on
> > the wiki, so that I and other can look at them.
> > 
> > Regarding (b), I have a broadband connection on my
> > Windows XP computer at home -- what should I do?
> > 
> > Thanks to FX for the (now working) Windows binary.
> > 
> > Vivek Rao
> > 
> > 
> I was already planning to do regular Cygwin builds
> and copy them out to the 
> server referenced in the wiki.  My only question is
> how frequently should we do 
> this?

Thank you for the planned Cygwin builds, but the
gfortran wiki recommends the mingw version as the
default choice for Windows users, so I think regularly
creating mingw builds for mingw is important.

The mingw version of g95 is the most popular one
according to http://www.g95.org/src.shtml .



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