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	g95 on a Mac I installed g95 on a Mac (OS X) but it failed to compile a test program, with a message about missing 'as'. I'm guessing that's an assembler. Can someone tell me what is involved in using g95 on a Mac, besides downloading the tar file? The g95 site doesn't seem to have any extra instructions. Gib Bogle wrote: > I installed g95 on a Mac (OS X) but it failed to compile a test program, > with a message about missing 'as'. I'm guessing that's an assembler. > Can someone tell me what is involved in using g95 on a Mac, besides > downloading the tar file? The g95 site doesn't seem to have any extra > instructions. Me too! My boss has just tasked me with getting code to compile on his G4 Mac. I initially tried the Absoft compiler (v8.0), but gave up in disgust when it spewed out error messages with line numbers beyond the end of the source file (anyone seen this before)? Now I want to get g95 working; so I'll be just as grateful as Gib for any answers to his question. cheers, Rich Gib Bogle <g.bo@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz> wrote: > I installed g95 on a Mac (OS X) but it failed to compile a test program, > with a message about missing 'as'. I'm guessing that's an assembler. > Can someone tell me what is involved in using g95 on a Mac, besides > downloading the tar file? The g95 site doesn't seem to have any extra > instructions. Yep, that would be the assembler. You need to first install the developer tools, aka XCode. It should be on your installation DVD. Or you can downlaod possibly more current versions from the Apple Developer site at... hmm... though I had it bookmarked, but I guess not... connect.apple.com. It requires that you sign up, but it is free to do so. You'll need the dev tools first for pretty much any compiler for any language. -- Richard Maine \| Good judgement comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net \| experience comes from bad judgement. domain: summertriangle \| -- Mark Twain - Hide quoted text - Richard Maine wrote: > Gib Bogle <g.bo@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz> wrote: >> I installed g95 on a Mac (OS X) but it failed to compile a test program, >> with a message about missing 'as'. I'm guessing that's an assembler. >> Can someone tell me what is involved in using g95 on a Mac, besides >> downloading the tar file? The g95 site doesn't seem to have any extra >> instructions. > Yep, that would be the assembler. You need to first install the > developer tools, aka XCode. It should be on your installation DVD. Or > you can downlaod possibly more current versions from the Apple Developer > site at... hmm... though I had it bookmarked, but I guess not... > connect.apple.com. It requires that you sign up, but it is free to do > so. > You'll need the dev tools first for pretty much any compiler for any > language. Thanks Richard. When I installed g95 on my W2k machine I think I just downloaded and it worked, unless my memory is letting me down again. The executable is g95-MinGW.exe. BTW, this is not my Mac, it belongs to a biologist with whom I collaborate. In case he doesn't want to install the whole Xcode package, is it possible to install a bare-bones subset? I just need to be able to build a couple of executables to run on his machine. You only need to install cctools. There is a link on the G95 binaries page (although its not the most recent version of cctools). Al Greynolds www.ruda.com Questions on installing g95 are on-topic in a Fortran newsgroup (this ain't comp.lang.c, thank goodness), but I think the best place to ask such questions is the active Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/gg95 , where problems with installing g95 on a Mac have been discussed many times. Possibly searching the archives of that group would answer the questions. Joining that group requires only a free Google account. awgreyno@earthlink.net wrote: > You only need to install cctools. There is a link on the G95 binaries > page (although its not the most recent version of cctools). > Al Greynolds > www.ruda.com Thanks Al, that's what I was hoping to find. Beliavsky wrote: > Questions on installing g95 are on-topic in a Fortran newsgroup (this > ain't comp.lang.c, thank goodness), but I think the best place to ask > such questions is the active Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/gg95 > , where problems with installing g95 on a Mac have been discussed many > times. Possibly searching the archives of that group would answer the > questions. Joining that group requires only a free Google account. I did find some posts about cctools on the gg95 group, but frankly I found them a bit confusing. I'm still not clear about which version of cctools is OK to use. - Hide quoted text - Richard Maine wrote: > Gib Bogle <g.bo@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz> wrote: >>I installed g95 on a Mac (OS X) but it failed to compile a test program, >>with a message about missing 'as'. I'm guessing that's an assembler. >>Can someone tell me what is involved in using g95 on a Mac, besides >>downloading the tar file? The g95 site doesn't seem to have any extra >>instructions. > Yep, that would be the assembler. You need to first install the > developer tools, aka XCode. It should be on your installation DVD. Or > you can downlaod possibly more current versions from the Apple Developer > site at... hmm... though I had it bookmarked, but I guess not... > connect.apple.com. It requires that you sign up, but it is free to do > so. > You'll need the dev tools first for pretty much any compiler for any > language. The owner of the Mac installed Xcode, now g95 works as advertised.

Fortran Programming Language

g95 on a Mac