topic Copyright (C) 1985-2018 Intel in Intel® Fortran Compiler

Write access for .obj file

PASeeger — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:42:04 GMT

This is the source file:

Program hello
print *, 'hello world'

end program

This is the command screen:

Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio Shell 15.0 x86 tools.

C:\Program Files (x86)\IntelSWTools>ifort /c C:\temp\hello.f90
Intel(R) Visual Fortran Intel(R) 64 Compiler for applications running on IA-32, Version 18.0.3.210 Build 20180410
Copyright (C) 1985-2018 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

error: can't open file hello.obj for write
compilation aborted for C:\temp\hello.f90 (code 1)

C:\Program Files (x86)\IntelSWTools>

I can turn off the "Read-only" attribute for the folder C:\temp, but when I execute ifort it gets changed back, and ifort can not generate the .obj file.

See https://software.intel

Steve_Lionel — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 19:12:03 GMT

See https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-visual-fortran-compiler-for-windows/topic/784675

while running the compiler

Baltaji__Omar — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 03:39:03 GMT

while running the compiler via the command prompt, cd to the folder containing the code before trying to compile

And as Steve already

gib — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:37:34 GMT

And as Steve already explained, you should do program development in a folder that you created, where you will have full read-write permissions. Never work in a folder that is part of the compiler installation.

Copyright (C) 1985-2018 Intel

jimdempseyatthecove — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:35:49 GMT

Copyright (C) 1985-2018 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
 Intel(R) Compiler 18.0 Update 3 (package 210)

Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio Shell 15.0 x86 tools.

C:\Program Files (x86)\IntelSWTools>cd \temp
C:\temp>ifort /c hello.f90

Jim Dempsey

In particular, don't do

Steve_Lionel — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 15:36:33 GMT

In particular, don't do development in a folder under Windows or Program Files. Unfortunately, the shortcut created by the install uses the install folder as a default. I'm not sure if the installer has the ability to change this.

>> I'm not sure if the

jimdempseyatthecove — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:03:41 GMT

>> I'm not sure if the installer has the ability to change this.

However, you can Right-Click on the shortcut, select properties, then in the Shortcut property tab, set the Start in property to a default folder of your preference (e.g. C:\temp or C:\workspace or ...)

Jim Dempsey

Sure, or what I do is:

Steve_Lionel — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:33:46 GMT

Sure, or what I do is:

Copy the shortcut to my desktop
Change the Start In folder
Edit the path for Target to start with "%IFORT_COMPILER19%bin\"

This last means I can use the same shortcut to get the latest update and not have to find it in the Start menu. I also edit the Layout to increase the Window Size and Buffer Size.

Quote:jimdempseyatthecove

FortranFan — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:05:00 GMT

jimdempseyatthecove wrote:
>> I'm not sure if the installer has the ability to change this.
However, you can Right-Click on the shortcut, select properties, then in the Shortcut property tab, set the Start in property to a default folder of your preference (e.g. C:\temp or C:\workspace or ...)
Jim Dempsey

Good point by Jim, I was going to write the same.

It's rather surprising the Parallel Studio installer sets up shortcuts with a "Start in" setting to a folder under ProgFiles, a no-no from any software enterprise perspective:

Why can't someone from Intel staff take an action item from this thread to loop back to the Parallel Studio packaging team to modify the shortcut(s) with user-friendly settings such as those described in Quote #8?

What would you suggest the

Steve_Lionel — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:57:31 GMT

What would you suggest the installer select for Start In? The only thing I can think of would be My Documents. But then I looked at what Microsoft Visual Studio does, and it also sets Start In to be the install folder, so I have to think that the mechanism for adding the shortcut doesn't provide that capability.

Quote:Steve Lionel (Ret.)

FortranFan — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 20:38:42 GMT

Steve Lionel (Ret.) wrote:
What would you suggest the installer select for Start In? ..

Why not Visual Studio XXXX folder in Documents? Every shortcut in Intel Parallel Studio is specific to target platform (e.g., x64) but also the integration with a Visual Studio version. And Microsoft Visual Studio installer indeed creates a folder under Documents e.g., %user profile\Documents\Visual Studio 2017.

Not a bad idea, but I do have

Steve_Lionel — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:31:22 GMT

Not a bad idea, but I do have to wonder why VS itself doesn't do this.