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Subject: Re: Fortran Installation
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 16:42:59 -0500
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From: Lou Umscheid via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On 1/3/2021 4:03 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-01-03 12:18, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 1/3/2021 1:41 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2021-01-03 11:37, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>> On 2021-01-03 11:22, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>> On 1/3/2021 12:28 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>>>> On 2021-01-03 09:44, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>>>> I would like to install Fortran on newly installed Cygwin64 on 
>>>>>>> my new LG laptop. I did this 9+ years ago for Cygwin32 on my 
>>>>>>> Dell T1600 which is now fading. The process 9 years ago was long 
>>>>>>> and hard over several weeks with many fallbacks and redo's. I am 
>>>>>>> competent in Fortran programming but have only a minimum 
>>>>>>> knowledge of Linux/Unix. Can anyone point me to a guide (I 
>>>>>>> searched but could not find any) to installing Fortran, 
>>>>>>> including which files to download, PATH, alias changes, etc. I 
>>>>>>> know it is a lot to ask, but ANY help would be appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To get a list of manually picked and installed packages in your 
>>>>>> current Cygwin installation (excluding library packages except if 
>>>>>> they are devel or doc packages) run the following command against 
>>>>>> your current installation:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ awk '$3 && ($1 !~ /^lib/ || $1 ~ /-(devel|doc)/) {print $1}' \
>>>>>>     /etc/setup/installed.db | tee cygwin-packages-picked.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * transfer the file cygwin-packages-picked.txt to your new system 
>>>>>> e.g. your Windows account Downloads folder on your new system,
>>>>>> * download https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe to e.g. your 
>>>>>> Windows account Downloads folder on your new system,
>>>>>> * run setup-x86_64 on your new system with no selections to 
>>>>>> install a basic Cygwin installation for you, then
>>>>>> * start a Cygwin shell in a terminal session, and
>>>>>> * rerun the Cygwin setup program with e.g.:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ cygstart /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/setup-x86_64 \
>>>>>> -P "`cat 
>>>>>> /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/cygwin-packages-picked.txt`"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to start installing the manually picked packages you had on your 
>>>>>> old system (dependencies will be automatically pulled in):
>>>>>> * you *MUST* exit your Cygwin shell and terminal, and ensure that 
>>>>>> you have no other Cygwin processes still running, before allowing 
>>>>>> the Cygwin setup program to proceed; and
>>>>>> * wait patiently for all the package downloads, installations, 
>>>>>> and post-install scripts to run to completion, before trying to 
>>>>>> do anything more under Cygwin on your new system.
>>>>
>>>>> wow; thanks for quick response. I tried running your first command 
>>>>> but got
>>>>> the message:
>>>>>
>>>>> awk: fatal: cannot open file ' /etc/setup/installed.db' for 
>>>>> reading (No such file or directory) >
>>>>> The file seems to be there and I checked my input so I do not know 
>>>>> what when wrong. Any suggestions?
>
>>>> File name shown is ' /etc/setup/installed.db' - includes a leading 
>>>> space - do not use any quotes or add spaces in file names - or just 
>>>> paste the second line at the end of the first line, with an 
>>>> (unquoted) space between if required.
>>>
>>> ...and remove any \ continuation escape if you paste the lines 
>>> together - that may well have been your issue!
>> Another question, if I may: does your procedure install both Fortran and
>> Dislin which are installed on the T1600? I do not see them in 
>> cygwin-packages-picked.txt.
>
> The Cygwin Fortran package is gcc-fortran (gfortran/f95 symlink): you 
> should see this unless you have been using a proprietary closed source 
> compiler.
> It looks like Dislin is a proprietary closed source plotting package 
> which you will have to find, acquire, install, and configure 
> separately, or migrate settings from your old system.
>
There is a gcc4-fortran listed; so is that OK? And the old 32 bit vs new 
64 bit is not a problem?

DISLIN is a free scientific plotting package(www.dislin.de). They have a 
download for 64 bit Cygwin so I hope that will work.  Lou

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