basic questions

[Deleted_U_Intel]

(a) Perhaps I am too dumb for this : the website did not clearly specify whether I need to have some other softwares installed before Intel Fortran could work. For example, some FORTRAN compilers require cygwin to be in place first, which is a MAJOR pain in my experience. Could I assume that it will self-install like MS Office, without complicated tweaking in between?







(b) In addition, is there a possibility that the student price version come with IMSL libraries?







I asked the customer support both questions, but have not received a response yet. Perhaps this is another forum where I could get good answers.







Thanks!

[TimP]

a) Did you read the related answers already posted on this forum, including those about Visual Studio Express? If you think installing cygwin is a pain, maybe you should consider linux.

b) For a student, presumably looking for education rather than a way to spend money, the alternatives to IMSL fit both criteria.

Message Edited by tim18 on 06-02-200606:38 AM

[Steven_L_Intel1]

See here for the required software. This is stated on our web site product page and in the Installation Guide.

For full function, you need Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or higher, or certain older versions of Visual Studio or Visual C++.NET. Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition will let you build from a command prompt, but not let you use the visual development environment.

There is no student version of the Professional Edition with IMSL.

[emcnyc]

Most of the functionality of the IMSL routines can be replicated from NETLIB (www.netlib.org). The source for BLAS, LINPACK, etc is there, albeit without machine-specific optimizations. Of course, if you can afford the Professional Edition of IVF you'll get versions which are optimized for Wintel, probably better error handling, and almost certainly clearer documentation.