Problem compiling NONMEM with mingw gfortran 4.3.0 builds

[Jerry DeLisle]

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is no longer maintained, but definitely stable.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