Jonathan, As you suggested I tried typing in the following: gfortran -I c:/programfiles/aspentech/aspenplus2006.5/engine/commons -xf77-cpp-input usrkpg2.f And got the same error abour the missing file back. I also noticed that if I subsitute in: "z:/" instead of the "c:/..." when no z drive exists does not come back with any error. I am wondering if the preprocessor is not getting to the correct folder. When I try typing in the location using "Program Files" instead of "programfiles" it gives me an error about not finding the directory seemingly due to the space. Thank you for your ideas so far! ~J On 8/27/12, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27 August 2012 19:03, Jason Clark wrote: >> Thank you for your help in advance, I am absolutely new to gfortran >> and am now stuck. I am using Windows Vista and attempting to compile >> some code that has #include "..." statements that reference a file not >> in the same location as the .f file. The command I input is as >> follows: >> >> gfortran -iquote >> c:\programfiles\aspentech\aspenplus2006.5\engine\commons >> -xf77-cpp-input usrkpg2.f >> >> The error I receive is as follows: >> >> usrkpg2.f:66:0: fatal error: rcst_rcstri.cmon: No such file or >> directory compilation terminated > > I don't know how gfortran uses the preprocessor, but you would usually > use -I to find headers, not -iquote, which is for more specialized > uses. Does using -I work? >