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#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS HOW TO#
#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS INSTALL#
#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS UPDATE#
#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS UPGRADE#
#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS WINDOWS 10#

#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS INSTALL#

(You can also install emacs very easily in the same way) Vim is optional, but always good to have -) This command will install first a set of development software included in a package called base-devel and then it will install gcc, vim and cmake Then you can start to install gcc and other developer tools using pacman like this: # Install make, autoconf, etc to C:\msys64\usr\bin

#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS UPDATE#

When you install MSYS2 for the first time, you have to update pacman using the following command: pacman -SyuĤ- Installing GCC and other development tools with the pacman package management system The package management system which is equivalent to apt-get on linux is called pacman Run the 3rd one MSYS2 MSYS to open a special command window in which you can input commands and start to install programs Once you installed it, you will see 3 programs appear in your list of programs: Just download the correct installer and launch it with admin rights and you are good to go Installing it is actually a peace of cake You will be able to install gcc just with one command line like this:Īccording to their website, MSYS2 is a software distribution and building platform for Windows I will present you another way much simplier!įor that I will have to install a software called MSYS2, which is an “easy” way to give some linux feel to your Windows PC and able it to install programs almost as easily as in linux… You can spend several days trying to do that if you are really motivated On Windows, if you want to have gcc (and the other compilers too), you have to download the source code and find a way to compile it…įor that, you will need to install first other software called pre-requisites which will also need to be compiled, etc…

#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS UPGRADE#

The reason it is easy to install compilers and other kind of open source software on linux is because you have a very powerful command line terminal called bash which handles the installation, uninstallation and upgrade of software using a software called “apt” on debian-based linux systems. Now that you understand how it can be easy to start with writing C code, let’s talk about the difficult part… Just go into the directory where your executable is and run it by writing “helloworld.exe” This will generate an executable binary file called helloworld.exe which can be used to run your code Write the following line of code into your terminal: gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld Once installed on your machine, gcc is just a piece of cake to use to compile a simple c language code Step 1: Write your c codeįor example, let’s take this Hello World example #include

#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS HOW TO#

Now, for large pieces of software, visual studio is probably the way to go 2- How to use the gcc compiler?

Building even a very simple project takes much more time than it shouldīecause of that, I find that I kind of takes out the fun of programming and seeing immediately the result of what you did….

It’s a big pain to set up the first time.

It is huge to download and install (between 10 and 20 GB if I remember).

I am personally not such a big fan of Visual Studio because of the following reasons: That’s true, and it’s totally fine if you want to use it… If you are on Windows, you probably heard about software such as visual studio from Microsoft which also you to write and compile C and C++ code as well.

for Fortran, the compiler is called gfortran.

There are actually several compilers which go together like a suite: The most well know compiler for C language is the GNU compiler called GCC. If you want a simple way to create programs based on C, C++, Fortran, etc… you will have to install a software with can compile the code you write into code that the machine understands Note: The procedure I describe here will not only allow you to install gcc, but also g++, gfortran, and many other useful tools that you usually only get in linux OS (like ls or grep) 1- What I want to teach you here Here’s a video in which I explain the procedure:

#HOW TO INSTALL GFORTRAN ON WINDOWS WINDOWS 10#

I have been struggling with how to do the same thing on Windows 10 for some time, but I finally succeeded On Linux, gcc is install by default and you can start to compile and execute C language code almost right away!