What to buy to replace Compaq Visual Fortran

[GWats1]

The last time I had to revise and recompile an old Fortran program that I wrote, we had CVF 6.? on Win 98 or some old Windows OS.  I don't have to do it often but wanted to get a Fortran compiler that would run on Win7-64 in case I want to dig into my old Fortran programs. I originally learned Fortran IV back in 1967 in school.

I'm the last of the Engineers that wrote Fortran programs at our company and I may have a need to revise some code and recompile to get it to run on our PC's so I just need one license for myself.

[TimP]

An Intel Visual Fortran license gives you access to both the 32-bit "ia32" and 64-bit "intel64" mode compilers.  ia32 works with both 32-bit and X64 Windows; if you will support only X64, you would likely choose Intel64.

[GWats1]

Thanks for the reply. What package of Intel Visual Fortran should we look at ordering?  There were some that included C++ and other libraries IIRC.  I don't do any flavor of C and am probably too old to learn. ;)

[DavidWhite]

George,

If you don't need cross-language compilation and linking, then Visual Fortran Composer XE is what you need.  You can get a version with an embedded copy of Visual Studio, which saves you the additional expense.

If you download the trial version, then this will be essentially the same version.

David

[TimP]

The Visual Studio Shell (for Fortran only, no C or C++) is bundled with the purchased version only.   For the trial, you can first install a trial copy of Visual Studio Pro 2010, 2012, or 2013.

[GWats1]

Thanks for the tips David and Tim.  We have a little budget money we need to spend by the end of the year so my wish list was to get a Fortran compiler. Now all I need to do is train my replacement to read and revise my old Fortran programs before I retire.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The product name is now Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition for Fortran Windows.

[GWats1]

Hi Steve.  Thanks for the name.  We have used SHI as a reseller for Autodesk products and I think they are listed as a reseller for the Fortran package. I have contacted them but have not heard back yet.

[Sergey_K_1]

Dear Participants,

Is it possible to buy Intel Visual Fortran compiler as a stand-alone product? I see from the discussion that i can get the compiler as part of big and not very cheap packages. But i need only the compiler. I work under Windows 7 64 bit but i develop only ia32 applications.

Thank you.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The product you want is now called "Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition for Fortran Windows". This is the compiler, Intel MKL and a Fortran development environment based on Visual Studio. It supports building both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. We don't break it down further.

[GWats1]

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[Steven_L_Intel1]

I'm going to move your question to our Download, Registration and Licensing forum.

[GWats1]

Thanks for the redirection to the right place.