Fortran Install SOS

[robert_mcmahon]

Once downloaded, how do I get a desktop icon?

[mecej4]

Patience. Please read the release notes to make sure that your system has the prerequisites installed, and to save yourself trouble later. Then, in the same release notes, read and follow the instructions for installation.

[robert_mcmahon]

I did that, but still cannot figure how to get icon on the desktop.

[TimP]

ifort for linux and Mac is basically a command line product. It's up to you to decide what script you want an icon to run, and set it up yourself.

[robert_mcmahon]

How do I do that?

I am very new to Mac's and very very new to Fortran.

Where can I find step by step instructions?

[TimP]

For example, perhaps you want an icon which does something like the Visual Studio command prompt invocation:
Open a text window, in which the ifortvars script is sourced e.g. if running bash and 64-bit compiler,
source /opt/intel/compiler/11.1/073/bin/ifortvars.sh intel64
so much of that is basic Mac icon stuff not specific to Fortran. The ifort part, as mentioned above, is in the release notes. As those notes (at least the linux ones) say, it's possible to add the ifort environment setup to .profile or whatever so that every new terminal has the ifort command set up for compile and run, but I would agree on the advantages of having a specific icon for it.

[robert_mcmahon]

How do I open a terminal window?

How do I open a text window?