Article:		Further Your CS Development with Mac OS X
Subject:		Fortran and C#
Date:		2004-08-16 15:40:24
From:		jstarr
Numerous folks emailed me about Fortran and C# support. Since discussion is now open, if you've got good pointers for Fortran, feel free to reply to this comment. The original point I was trying to make was not that you *couldn't* get Fortran, or even C#, to run on OS X. When did the lack of a prepackaged installer stop any of us UNIX folks from getting what we really wanted to work? I just meant that out of the box, or with Apple Developer Tools CD, Fortran and C# - to my knowledge - were not provided. Everything else (I listed) is. The easy availability serves longtime and newbie UNIX users well.

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• Fortran and C#
  2004-08-18 01:31:08  nzino [Reply | View]
  
  
  It's true that out of the box, you can't compile Fortran on OSX.
  
  Now, IBM provides a very efficient Fortran compiler in its "XL" compiler suite.
  
  Besides, with darwinports (http://darwinports.opendarwin.org) or fink (http://fink.sf.net), it is a matter of a few keystrokes to have a g77 (gcc compiler for fortran) on your computer.

• Fortran and C#
  2004-08-16 19:57:24  jstarr [Reply | View]
  
  
  A reader pointed out that gcc usually includes g77 for Fortran. But the gcc man page on Panther says "...Apple does not currently support the compilation of Fortran, Ada, or Java, although there are third parties who have made these work..."
  They suggest Gaurav Khanna 's Gaurav Khanna 's site if you're interested in running Fortran.