Vista compatibility with Fortran, C++ & VS versions

[davinci]

Hi Fortran Folks, Dr. Fortran,

For many years (Open)VMS / Fortran was my thing. And thereforehappy enough with Windows2000 ona notebook, CVF-Prof-6.6c, MS-C++-6.0, Developer Studio.Very stable.

However time to migrate to IVF, 32&64b, Intel multicore support.

Therefore I was browsing this forum to get an idea how to migrate older and newerFortran/C++ to Vista 32/64b. How and what to update, problems, solutions...?

.NET/C# implementations ?, no thanks for a while.

Is therea link to a recent (2007/2008) overview or a discussion page on this subject?

Thanks, Clemens de Leeuw (DaVinci) - Netherlands

[Steven_L_Intel1]

As far as your application is concerned, it is unlikely to need any changes for Vista 32-bit. You may need some changes for Vista 64-bit if your program manipulates addresses as integers or uses "handles" to Win32 API routines.

I have not seen customers experiencing application issues on Vista.

Please be sure to read the IVF Installation Guide for advice on installing IVF on Vista.

[g_f_thomas]

I went from Windows 2000 to Vista 32 bit, the Windows goes to Hollywood version. I dig it and so will you.

VC++6 doesn't function on Vista (but VB6 does) at Microsoft's pleasure. I read reports here that CVF6.6C also runs but I suspect that's from the command line as it has the same IDE as VC++6 which doesn't run from that unsupported IDE.

IVF on VS 2005 are stable on Vista (and WinXP for that matter.)

As for C#, its a pleasurable language to work with and beats the pants off java and other interlopers.

Go for it,

Gerry

[davidspurr]

I'm using IVF10 on Vista64, but developing console apps only (32 & 64b).

Only one minor issue so far - easily fixed. That was a 32b / 64b code issue - GETFILEINFOQQ call failed because I had the HANDLE argument declared as INTEGER(4). See http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums//topic/56836 especially Steve's replies at the end of the thread.

AFAIK, I have had no Vista specific issues (except abysmal network performance which SP1 reportedly fixes).

David

[davinci]

Well, I didn't succeed in installing CVF or IVF on my new and pretty clean Vista Home Premium notebook with Vista and Norton-2008 prinstalled and OfficePro-1003added, then an automaticcheck for the latest patches.I already expected quite some problems with installing on Vista/Norton, therefore my previous question.

Years ago I started with CVF6.1-Standard and upgraded several times until CVF6.6C-Pro. After hardware changes in the past I succesfully installed the successive packages again(didn't try the latest CVF6.6 pack directly without its predecessors).

Now under Vista,CVF6.1 was installed incompletebut without errors, thenthe upgrades started reporting missing files and aborted. I then tried IVF9.0-Standard (still have to purchase the Intel V10 Fortran/C++ Pro Studio). The installationdisplayed some file content in raw HTMLcode and stopped there.

I didn't try installing again, after closing Norton (5 ours) and hide/disable all services on the msConfig tabs "Services" and "Startup" and reboot, then install, recover Norton and settings again and reboot. This might help, but I'm not much of a windows system manager and prefer to be cautious.

Any pc/notebook without Fortran is like a walk without pants. Microsoft-Netherlands responded that this CVF/IVF software isn't supported under Vista ! So, suggestions and experiences with Vista are very welcome, the home address of Bill Gates is nice too.

I report solutionsas soon asavailable. Thanks, Clemens

[Steven_L_Intel1]

CVF is not supported on Vista. (Heck, CVF isn't supported at all now...)

As for IVF, 10.0 is the first version to support Vista. We know 9.0 does not work. 10.1 is the current version.

[davinci]

Steve, I'll join again with the Intel Compiler Suite for Vista. Ididn'tfind an upgrade version for CVF66B / MSVisualC++60 / Visual Studio, I suppose the period for upgradingexpired ?.

Apart from that, several installation problems under Vista do indeed disappear after disabeling startup settings as I described above. CVF could be installed in this way. Enable settings again is done on the General tab "normal settings".

Clemens

[Steven_L_Intel1]

When we first brought out IVF in 2003, we did have a discounted migration program. That expired in June 2004. Note that you do not need to separately purchase Microsoft Visual Studio if you buy the compiler Standard or Professional Edition.