On 26 March 2014 14:52, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > 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 I've just realised using "sources" in that sentence is a bit confusing, I mean there is a list of places to get pre-built Windows binaries at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#Windows (I don't mean you should get the source code from those sites.) Apologies for any confusion.