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New Fortran webpage
https://fortran-lang.org/en
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Hello World for Windows #54

Open Beliavsky opened 2 years ago

Beliavsky commented 2 years ago

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 just hello.exe.

Adobe-Android commented 2 years ago

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.

harshit4311 commented 11 months ago

I would love working on this issue! Could you please assign it to me?