Simple .exe in Windows.

yellowputty · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:18

In unix, I have a file, which i write in textedit, which goes something like this:

#g95 -o simple file1.f file2.f

I'll set chmod +x to create a simple executable file, and it will run the command: ie, the compiler g95 will create a unix executable file called simple.

How the heck do I do this in windows? I tried being stupid, and renaming as .exe which led to much awfulness.

Now I'm hearing something about needing to convert to binary?

Please help! Thank you

tntcoder · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:30

So g95 is a Fortran compiler, which im guessing means your quite old?

Linux uses ELF format and Windows uses EXE, they are completly different so as you suspected the simple rename would not work.

What you need is a Windows compiler for Fortran, try downloading the windows g95 complier from here: http://www.g95.org/downloads.shtml#V0.92 (Self-extracting Windows x86).

And give it your fortran file to compile, hopefully that will put you in the right direction.

EDIT: Hope i didn't misread, I kind of got the impression you wanted an executable shell script on the second read to run the g95 compiler. If this is this case, use a batch file with and point to the windows g95 compiler.

yellowputty · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:41

Hi tntcoder,

Thanks for your quick reply. Sorry to disappoint you but i'm a masters student

, and I work with old fortran code (77) for my astrophysics project. I usually work it through on mac osx or linux, but the code can take a while to run sometimes, so was hoping to run in on my windows desktop. I have the g95 compiler installed.

Your second read was right, I do need a batch file!

Thank you.

tntcoder · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:57

yellowputty said:
Hi tntcoder,

Thanks for your quick reply. Sorry to disappoint you but i'm a masters student , and I work with old fortran code (77) for my astrophysics project. I usually work it through on mac osx or linux, but the code can take a while to run sometimes, so was hoping to run in on my windows desktop. I have the g95 compiler installed.

Your second read was right, I do need a batch file!

Thank you.

Ah cool, I forgot Fortran is still very popular in the physics world.

So for a batch file, the exact same line should work in windows if g95 is installed and just save as a .bat file and it should just work