How to determine most appropriate Intel Fortran runtime

[mwpowell]

Hello,

We support an Intel Fortran library deploying into 32-bit Windows environments (mainly), or into 64-bit Windows as a 32-bit environment. Our Fortranbuilds are also (somewhat) disconnected from the main development trunk (something I want to get a handle on eventually, but for the monent...), so I need to identify the most appropriate runtime to install.

Preferably, by convention I would like to incorporate the runtime apart from sniffing for any external dependencies, as this just gets messy quickly, I'd like to avoid that expense. Take, for example, the Microsoft Visual C++ runtimes; these go "neatly" as a bundle, redistributable executable install that can be run as part of an installation.

I want to do something similar for our installers. How do I determine what version of runtime is best for our products?

Thank you...

Best regards,

Michael

[mwpowell]

Two pieces of information that I currently have:

The IDE integration says: "Intel Visual Fortran: Package ID: w_fcompxe_2011.2.154".

Additionally, the Intel website apparently has these runtimes to choose from: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/redistributable-libraries-of-the-intel-c-and-fortran-compiler-for-windows/

Scanning my Program Files in the Intel folder, I don't see anything in the ComposeXE-2011 that jumps out as a plausible "redist" package to incorporate into our process.

[mecej4]

A typical installation of Intel Fortran has a "redist" directory, e.g.:

Directory of c:\LANG\ivf12\Composer XE 2011 SP1

09/19/2011 10:08 AM .
09/19/2011 10:08 AM ..
09/19/2011 09:57 AM bin
09/19/2011 09:51 AM compiler
09/19/2011 10:07 AM debugger
09/19/2011 10:08 AM Documentation
06/06/2011 12:36 PM 243 foldermap.sc.xml
09/19/2011 10:08 AM Help
09/19/2011 10:03 AM ipp
09/19/2011 10:00 AM mkl
09/19/2011 09:48 AM redist
09/19/2011 09:49 AM Samples
09/19/2011 09:48 AM setup_6_233
09/19/2011 10:05 AM tbb

Are you missing this directory? That would be odd.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Under the "redist" folder mecej4 mentioned you will find a "compiler" folder with two subfolders, ia32 and intel64. Each contains a Windows Installer Merge Module (.msm) which installs the compiler redistributables. It does not matter what the system architecture is, install the one that matches your application's configuration (Win32 or x64).

[mwpowell]

Yessir, there is a redist folder there. If I dig a little into the compiler subfolder, are we talking about the "w_f*.msm" file? Can this be easily run from a command line?

What I need to do is find a redistributable I can run a la the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime redistributable, just for the time being.

Eventually I want to incorporate all this, if it isn't already, into a more proper build and distribution process.

Thank you.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If what you want is an EXE to run, you can download that from the Intel Registration Center alongside the compiler download.