Re: [photran] Photran 5.0 & Intel Visual Fortran 11

[Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I notice that Intel Visual Fortran includes something called Visual Studio Shell which sounds like it might provide command-line tools for compiling Visual Fortran codes. If this is the case, then it probably wouldn't be too difficult to come up with a toolchain to compile from within Photran. The main problem will be debugging, since Photran (and CDT) relies heavily on GDB for debugging support. If GDB can't be used to debug a Visual Fortran app, then your only option would be to switch to Visual Studio for debugging.

Greg

On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Bob Apthorpe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> YueJun Yin wrote:
>> On 12/07/2009 07:16 AM, Dirk-Jan Pinkster wrote:
>>> Hi all, looking at all the features Photran 5 has to offer this
>>> really looks like a very seriously cool development environment for
>>> my Fortran code.
>>> 
>>> However, it is still not clear to me what to do in order to get 
>>> Photran to work with Intel Visual Fortran (11). Is there some sort
>>> of installation manual or checklist available anywhere?
>>> 
>>> I am not familiar with Cygwin, gfortran, makefiles etc. and I
>>> really would prefer a solution which consists of purely an IVF
>>> installation and a Photran installation.
>> 
>> If you are working on WinOS, I would recommend you use VS2008 for
>> IVF11. If you are on Linux, there is really nothing IDE to go, as far
>> as I tried. I am using Fedora 11. What I am doing is using VIM for
>> coding and then shell command to compile. Intel provides a GUI
>> debugger that is worth a try.
> 
> I'm migrating to Eclipse for most of my development on Windows and Linux
>  for a number of reasons. It decouples the compiler from the IDE, it
> gives me the the same toolset and IDE regardless of platform, it gives
> me superior search-and-replace capability, and in the case of Photran,
> I'm hopeful that the refactoring tools will mature to where I can press
> a button and convert our fixed-format half-F77/half-F9x code to clean,
> clear F9x code (I can dream... :) )
> 
> I have some version of Intel Visual Fortran, and while it works within
> Visual Studio, I'm also interested in getting it to work with Eclipse
> and Photran on Windows. I'm currently using gfortran as a workaround but
> I'd prefer a commercial compiler; we've paid for the Intel compiler so
> there's no reason not to use it.
> 
> -- Bob
> 
> PS: I still owe the team some log files and refactoring cases; I've been
> busy with code QA & such.
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