Help! I have rendered my IVF8.1+MS.Net FUBAR!

[keefer]

Hello,

Somehow, my copy (on CD) of MS Visual C++.net standard, v2003, and my downloaded version of IVF8., wf_fc_pc_8[1].1.025, .028 and .029.exe are not loading or finding the necessary pieces of each of other. My latest error message, from the IVF8.1 installer, is that it can't find the MS linker and won't run from the command line. Previous attempts have given me messages about MSDE not being loaded, although I downloaded it from the web. I have tried reloading MSVC++, the 1.1 update and Fortran,so many times and gotten so many different error mesagesthat things truly are Fouled Up Beyond All( at least my) Recognition. I've even tried loading IVF7.0, mainly because I have a CD for it. Help!

Regards,

Keith

[TimP]

You must go into your Visual Studio and open a project, even an empty one, to get VS initialized so that ifort installer works. VS needs to be working to that extent, even if you only want ifort command line.
I think if the ifort installer doesn't find a unique Visual Studio installation, it should ask you to browse to it. It may get confused if it finds remnants of missing Visual Studio which was not removed cleanly. If you get the message during installation about not finding the MS installation, asking if you want to continue, it is certain to fail to edit correctly the ifort.cfg and ifortvars.bat. In an unsupported installation, you can fix those yourself, so that the command prompt window works.

[keefer]

Thank you Tim.

I think I got it working purely by accident. I tracked down and removedevery file or folder that appeared to belong to Intel fortran or MS .net. (FYI there is a *.ttffile somewhere (under Common7?) that refuses to let itself be erased and so manual deletion has to be done on a folder by folder and file be file basis. Part of my FUBAR was that Various programs refused to uninstall themselves). I must have called Vs studio somewhere in the process. I tried to test every program as I got it online.

Thanks to your help, I have a better idea of how the installation proceeds.

As a suggestion, the Forum Hosts might consider adding a glossary. For example I don't really know if "ifort" is the name of an installer, the name of the compiler executable or a .bat file. (Yes, I could probably figure it out for myself, but the rest of the Forum might be interested, too, and the only computer that I qualify as a true expert is the PDP-8, may it live forever.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Keith