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

[Ted Kubaska <ted.kubaska@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I'm pretty new to Photran and haven't done any non-toy apps yet.

But what is it that Visual Studio provides that Eclipse cannot? I'm
using Eclipse and Intel Fortran on the Mac.
-ted

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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 -Ted