I am looking for a windows Fortran compiler I can suggest non-developer users install to compile an F95 source file. The site I used to suggest (equation.com) is now covered with download links that actually link to malware-lite ads. Perhaps if I knew the exact URL that avoided the download links it would work as something I could suggest. The other sites seem to offer .zip files that don’t would require the user to understand many simple computer terms that I don’t want to have to explain. TDM-GCC has a setup.exe but it failed to download the compiler (“one or more errors occurred”). The other sources I can see are full development environments or Linux emulations that will confuse my users. Is there nothing with a simple setup.exe (with sensible defaults) to guide the install?
You can point them to this link: Release Version update · LKedward/quickstart-fortran · GitHub (there is a downloadable installer there)
The downside is the version is outdated (GCC 12).
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That works. It even puts gfortran in the path. Even though it is old, I always find it much easier to modify my code to avoid compiler problems than it is to make compilers conform to my code. But there were no problems at all, 35,000 lines compiled without change.
Thank you so much.
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