From: Dave Love <d DOT love AT dl DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: G77 (Fortran) w/ GCC/DJGPP in DOS?
Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:17:31 +0100
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>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Kematick <kmatick AT binghamton DOT edu> writes:

 Bob> I think a lot of fortran'ers would be interested in a DJGPP port
 Bob> of g77. The question seems to come up on comp.lang.fortran now
 Bob> and again.  The alternative that fortran users are migrating
 Bob> towards ( bite my tongue ) is the emx / gcc package, to which
 Bob> g77 has been ported, and which runs on both os/2 and dos.

 Bob> So , anybody have any thoughts on how easy or difficult 
 Bob> the port may be ?

G77 will already cross-build or cross-compile to DJGPP.  (AFAIK,
anyway -- if there are currently problems, please let
fortran AT gnu DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu know swiftly.)  Someone has produced a
G77/libf2c DJGPP binary and, I understood, sent it to DJ.

I don't think there's any great difficulty in providing the facility
for native DJGPP building of the compiler, given the incentive.  I
expect compatible additions/changes would be included in the G77
distribution if someone cares to do it (or provide incentive :-)).