Richard B. Ahlvin wrote:
I need some information; maybe I've not found the 'right' site, or one can point me to the right place. 1).What is the latest G77 and where can I find a binary? (I have 0.5.25 is there anything later?
The latest release of g77 is g77-3.4.1, part of gcc-3.4.1. Binaries can be found by following the entry "Binaries" in the left column of our home page (http://gcc.gnu.org).
2).I have found what appears to be later G77 by itself, but without the libraries, etc. Will these G77 work with the "old" libraries and other codes in the compiler chain?
In general it will. Little has changed over the years in the library.
What I really want, is a Fortran 90 (or later) that works in Windows XP. (Our legacy Lahey F77/EM32 code no longer works in Windows 2000/XP after a recent Microsoft patch. 3).Is there a G95 that works in Windows XP? (Does g95/cygwin work on Windows XP? [why is cygwin needed for a compiler...I thought cygwin is a unix look-alike shell for windows?]
There probably is, but I do not know of one off-hand. Look into the mailing list archive at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2004-07/ to see who uses a cygwin system and ask them how to get a binary version of gcc-3.5.0. Note that that version hasn't been released yet and is *experimental*.
4).Is there a 'preferred' site to download GCC executables (that will have the 'latest' versions?)
See our "Binaries" entry that I alluded to above.
FWIW I have just sucessfully compiled a Fortran 77 code and it seems to work; I had to make some changes to allow for things not implemented in G77, fix some Fortran syntax errors that Lahey overlooked, and work around what seemed to be a compiler bug. Some results of the G77 compiled code differ from a Lahey F95 compiled version. I hope to trace that down shortly.
OK, if you think there's a real compiler bug, contact us again at http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/.
Thanks,
-- Toon Moene - mailto:toon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - phoneto: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html A maintainer of GNU Fortran 95: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/
