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Use the IDE for FORTRAN

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Arjan van Dijk

Hi!

Some of my source-code is NOT in Pascal, but in Fortran. I would really be very glad to develop my Fortran programs as effeciently as my
Pascal-projects (on a Windows box).

Has anyone ever tried to modify the IDE that comes with FreePascal to work as a Fortran workbench using e.g. the g95-compiler and GDB? If nobody has tried this yet, can someone estimate how much effort it would take to modify the IDE?
And where to start?

I suspect that Fortran will equally well collaborate with GDB. Functionality of the present IDE is perfect for me: syntax-highlighting editor, interfacing with the compiler, automatic sorting
of the sources in order of dependence when building a project, compile-error handling, interfacing with the debugger (step, breakpoint, watch variable).

Or does anyone have a better suggestion for an IDE for developing fortran-95 code on Windows machines?

Regards,

Arjan

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Arjan van Dijk
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Hi!

I just saw that about a year ago I posted more or less the same question to the FPC-community.

Sorry for that!

Still: the problem remains, so now that the message is out again, maybe someone has a new insight?

Last year I tried SetEdit, but on a Windows-box it is not really robust. Photran requires a lot of additional installations and a mindset starting from Makefiles, whereas my background in (Turbo/Free)Pascal
prefers to leave this type of business to the IDE: press CTRL-F9 and all should run automatically!
Geany seems not much more than an editor and GPS
looks nice, but has no Fortran plugins yet and the GPS community does not seem to have a strong
urge to accomplish it.

What else to do to develop Fortran code than
to continue adding and removing WRITE-statements?

Regards,

Arjan

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Marco van de Voort
to Arjan van Dijk: Hi! Some of my source-code is NOT in Pascal, but in Fortran. I would really be very glad…

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Some of my source-code is NOT in Pascal, but in Fortran. I would really be very glad to develop my Fortran programs as effeciently as my Pascal-projects (on a Windows box). Has anyone ever tried to modify the IDE that comes with FreePascal to work as a Fortran workbench using e.g. the g95-compiler and GDB?

Not that I know.

If nobody has tried this yet, can someone estimate how much effort it would take to modify the IDE?

The IDE has not been setup for multi-lingual support. Both the Pascal compiler and GDB are integrated, not external.

But that doesn't mean it's impossible. Just unknown.

And where to start?

ide directory in SVN, and the wiki page:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Textmode_IDE_development

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