On 26 March 2014 14:45, albert.kasenter wrote: > Hi I am a retired Medical Physicist and would like to know more about > programming > > I downloaded a snapshot of gcc 4.8 and now have it untarred and > uncompressed in a folder under windows 7 > Where can I find information on how to configure and use it. On Windows it is much easier to download pre-built binaries rather than configure it yourself. The GCC project does not provide any binaries itself, but there is a list of sources for Windows builds at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#Windows