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Hello World for Windows #54
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Assuming your compiler of choice adds the correct locations to your system PATH, this is a non-issue. I went through the hello world yesterday on Windows and had no such issue in PowerShell. The part that took me a moment was trying out a couple IDEs and getting them configured to build, run, and debug. |
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The Hello World page mentions how to install gfortran on Windows but is otherwise oriented towards Unix-like operating systems. If it is supposed to be equally usable for someone on Windows, here are some suggestions:
It says
To check if you have gfortran setup correctly, open a terminal and run the following command
Windows Terminal now starts out with Powershell. I think Fortran compilers and batch files were made to be used with CMD, which you can get by typing
cmd
at a Powershell prompt.It says to compile with
gfortran hello.f90 -o hello
but on Windows there is a convention to give executable files a .exe suffix.
It says to use
$> ./hello
to run the executable, but in Windows you would run
.\hello.exe
or probably justhello.exe
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