What to buy

[Eliberto_Q_]

My company just purchased me a new PC.  It's Windows 7, 64-bit.  My old PC was Windows XP and I had Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6 with F90SQL and MS Visual Studio 2005.  I installed MS VS 2012 but cannot install Compaq VS 6.6.  My applications that I build will be used by fellow employees.  What product do I purchase so that my Fortran and F90SQL routines work?

EQ

[Steven_L_Intel1]

You would want to buy Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition for Fortran Windows. (There are other editions that include more, such as the Professional Edition that adds Intel C++ and our analysis tools, but the one I named is the closest to CVF.)

For f90SQL, see https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/275275

I suggest that you also read https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/migrating-from-compaq-visual-fortran

[Eliberto_Q_]

Thank you Steve.  I'll do that and I appreciate your quick response.

EQ

[mecej4]

EQ wrote:
 I installed MS VS 2012 but cannot install Compaq VS 6.6.

The two do not go together. However, CVF 6.6 works quite well on Windows 7 as well as on Windows 8.x. The original installer on the CVF 6.x CD is a 16 bit program which is not compatible with recent versions of Windows. All that you have to do is to run the 32-bit installer from its own directory on the CD. See, for example, https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/293593 .

Whether to continue with a decade-old compiler or to migrate to a modern version of Fortran is a decision worth considering carefully.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I have found that it is hit-or-miss as to whether CVF will install on Windows 7/8, especially on 64-bit systems, even if you select the 32-bit installer. And even if it installs, VS98 often will fail to run. I've been unable to get it to install on my office Win7 system.

[mecej4]

Steve Lionel (Intel) wrote:
I have found that it is hit-or-miss as to whether CVF will install on Windows 7/8, especially on 64-bit systems, even if you select the 32-bit installer. And even if it installs, VS98 often will fail to run. I've been unable to get it to install on my office Win7 system.

Here are some quirks that I have noticed about installing and running CVF on W7 and W8.x systems. On one occasion, the 32-bit installer failed after almost finishing, and asked me to start over. Not particularly caring to do that, I archived the entire CVF directory from an old XP HDD, and unpacked the archive on the new machine. I then downloaded and installed the CVF redistributables. Finally, I saved the registry branch for CVF from the XP machine, changed the paths in the registry entries in HKLM\SOFTWARE to include WOW6432NODE, and Reg-ged the file. This worked. More recently, I replaced a 650 GB HDD with a 250 GB SSD, with a fresh install of W8.1X64. I then used the same CVF.tgz archive and the Reg file.

With these CVF installations, the VS98 IDE and debugger did not work if run from the CVF-configured command window, but things went fine if VS98 was run from the Start menu.