Recent content by fortranforever

Well, I'm almost embarrassed to say I still can not get this to work. I do not see a directory of gfortran created anywhere. I downloaded MinGW from here, and clicked on the blue hyperlink at top next to "Looking for the latest version:"...

Thanks all! I did install MinGW initially and did not get anything to work. However, I did not change anything in the Path. I will try this next and report back. If that doesn't work, maybe I will try g95 as it seems to be simpler. I thought the hard part was going to be learning the language...

Thanks Salgerman! So I tried to install gfortran, which seemed like it was newer than g95 and pretty comprehensive. However, when I type gfortran in the cmd line it doesn't recognize it. I did try to actually run it to make sure I hadn't just installed and not executed it, but it made no...

Hi everyone, I am considering using Fortran or C++ for some work I have to do reading in large data sets and doing numerical calculations for financial studies. Although I have coded in C years ago, and more recently Visual Basic, I am more or less a beginner level programmer and considering...