Using the Fortran Compiler on Windows Server 2008R2 on the command line

[florianh]

Hi,

one of our customers would like to buy the Intel Fortran Compilerfor Windows to compile some small fortran programs. He wants to use the compiler on a Windows Server 2008 R2 terminal server. Because of the system requirementsfor the Visual Studio IDE, he only want to use the command-line with the included Visual Studio 2010 shell. Is this working on Windows 2008 R2? I cannot test it, because the shell is not included in the evaluation version. In the release notes of Visual Fortran 11.1 for Windows I found nothing about the compatibility with Windows 2008 R2

best regards,
Florian

[TimP]

2008R2 released late in the development cycle for 11.1 but my customers have seen no problems vs. ifort. Although it doesn't say so explicitly in the release notes, the support for Server 2008 includes R2, which has been tested since the time it released. If you install ifort without Visual Studio, it will install VS shell. If you want VS2010 shell, you will need ifort 12.1 anyway, as previous ifort versions, including 11.1, had 2008 shell. Regardless of your choice of version, you get command-line option.