Looking for FORTRAN compiler with GUI

[tvilkov]

Hello,
At Uni we are using MSDEV for FORTRAN programming. Does anyone know of a program for linux similar to that (ie something like Visual Studio, but for Linux)? I have looked at Mono FAQ, but it does not say anything about FORTRAN. Is there any way I could program FORTRAN in Mono? I have searched the net, but haven't found anything usefull. I have an AMD64 X2 processor, anyway I tried the Intel compiler but could not get it to start. Thank you.

[drl]

Hi.

See http://www.eclipse.org/photran/ and for many things along the Fortran line see http://www.fortran.com/... cheers, drl

[tvilkov]

Thanks a lot! That has helped, although can't get any program to compile/run in eclipse phortran. Although I do have gfortran installed...

[drl]

Hi.

My recollection is that a common error is thinking that the photran plugin for Eclipse calls the compiler - it doesn't -- it calls make, so you need that and a makeflle.

If you have read over the FAQs at http://www.eclipse.org/photran/faq.php and you still cannot get photran to do anything, you will probably need to register for and use the mailing list at http://www.eclipse.org/photran/mailinglists.php ... cheers, drl

[tvilkov]

Thanks for that. I seem to have make installed (and automake etc), but the path provided in the tutorial did not work. So I decided to install Suns java to see if it makes any difference - well, it doesn't work any more. Java itself is ok, but when I try to run phortran, it gives this error in a little pop-up window -

JVM terminated. Exit code=127
/usr/bin/java
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-jar /home/tvilkov/eclipse/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-launcher /home/tvilkov/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
-showsplash 600
-exitdata 16800d
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-jar /home/tvilkov/eclipse/startup.jar

I think it has a problem with my java, but I am not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[drl]

Hi.

I think the Eclipse-Photran-Java friendship has often been uneasy; a number of threads in the mailing-list center on that topic.

Don't give up yet, it's a very powerful tool.

Regrettably, I don't have any specific advice other than to use the mailing-list. The responses from the Photran team are usually very fast.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

[tvilkov]

Thanks, I will have to try the mailing lists then. I appreciate your help!