install without visual studio

[astar]

i am doing a bare bones install without visual studio. i am able to preprocess and compile fortran source. for a larger project nmake is missing ... is it part of your distribution, or do i need an SDK from Microsoft.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Intel Visual Fortran requires some components of Visual Studio. If you don't have Visual Studio installed, we provide an installer that adds "Visual Studio 2008 Shell and Libraries", which includes nmake. You could probably make it work by installing the current Windows SDK and editing the various compilervars .bat files to point to it, but we don't support that for 32-bit development. (We do for x64 development.)

[astar]

hi. this is very helpful. i am developing on x64. and where do i download the mentioned "installer" thanks

[Steven_L_Intel1]

When you log in to the Intel Registration Center and click the link for the product, you will see several variations on the product installer. You want the one that says it includes Visual Studio 2008 Shell - it will have a name ending in just .exe, not _intel64.exe or _novsshell.exe.

Note that if you are downloading from the Evaluation Center, this option is not provided. As was indicated when you requested an evaluation, you need to have Visual Studio already installed, as we can't provide the VS Shell for evaluation copies.

[intelligent008]

So one absolutely has to have Visual Studio installed? Is there no way to individually install nmake (manually)? I'm not sure I want all those libraries.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The only confuguration we support is with Visual Studio installed. The bundled Visual Studio Shell includes only the necessary libraries, not all of what VS retail would get you. If you installed the Windows SDK, you'd get MUCH more.