Visual Studio 6?

AndrewC · ‎09-09-2004

Is it possible to use Intel Fortran Compiler 8.0 with Visual C++ 6. Is it required that .NET Studio be installed for the command line tools?

I understand we cannot have true integration with the Studio, but as IFORT can be executed from the command-line, I was hoping that we could compile the FORTRAN .f files as a custom build step using ifort.

Steven_L_Intel1 · ‎09-09-2004

There is no support for building with VC6 and the VC6 linker does not understand the object format of the Intel compiler.

See if this helps.

AndrewC · ‎09-09-2004

My comment is that we are very happy with Intel C/C++ 8.0 compiler which is supported well under Visual C++ 6, but we have some Fortran code in our project and were hoping to update our version of Compaq Fortran.
It is baffling to me that the Fortran compiler is not supported under VC6 - I know that decision to go .NET only was made a long ago, but I don't like it and don't understand it.

We have to stick with VC 6 for the moment as we use a number of third party C/C++ libraries that have not been rebuilt for .Net C++ compiler.