I’m looking for an easy way to create a stand-alone environment for a classroom-type setting, where I can install gfortran and other useful tools on Windows machines. I was going to use conda, but it seems like there are no Windows binaries for gfortran available. Users will not have admin rights, s…

Note for future readers of this thread: I just discovered that this channel: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/gfortran now has up to date windows binaries for Gfortran! Thanks to whoever did this!

Is that also the case with fortran-compilers? https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/fortran-compiler I’m away from my computer but I can try a couple of things when I get the chance

You may be interested in my quickstart-fortran installer which doesn’t require administrator rights and can be installed in an isolated environment without modifying system paths. [image] GitHub - LKedward/quickstart-fortran: An easy Windows installer for GFortran... An easy Windows ins…

Conda-forge has GFortran/MinGW , I think it is based on an early attempt to distribute MSYS2 via conda. What you get is GCC 5.3.0 and can be somewhat shaky depending on the features you want to use in modern Fortran. Alternatives, beside the quickstart installer might be Brecht Sanders’ GCC distri…

[image] gnikit: Is that also the case with fortran-compilers? This thread is relevant for the status of Fortran on conda-forge: [image] Conda toolchain for Fortran on Windows Just saw this post - very exciting! I contribute to both scipy and conda-forge (the lat…

This is terrific!! Worked great for me. I might just use it. Thanks again! I wonder why it is so difficult to get a recent gfortran into conda-forge? I say this knowing almost nothing about how conda-forge works. :slight_smile:

[image] jacobwilliams: I wonder why it is so difficult to get a recent gfortran into conda-forge? I say this knowing almost nothing about how conda-forge works. :slight_smile: Nobody decided to do it yet, simple as that. It is not a nice task, you will have to patch the compiler until it pass…

Another choice may be using Docker. You can install and configure whatever you want in the Docker image. People just need to load that image and bingo. Or, I think you can also create a WSL image with GUI configured, and people can load that WSL image, and visit it using Windows Remote Desktop via …

@jacobwilliams [image] CRquantum: , I think you can also create a WSL image with GUI configured If you make the students use Visual Studio Code it should be able to integrate natively with the WSL environment, no virtualization from within WSL. BTW The same is true for docker images, althoug…

Gfortran on Windows for classroom setting

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Gfortran on Windows for classroom setting

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