Digital visual fortran 6.0 windows 7

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• The porgram will install. But need to set the compatibility option to a prior window version so that it would open. Windows95 works best. But when loading a project it will start having problems about missing DLL. It will complile and link. But when trying to excecute it from the Console (as it should), it will not work. Is there anything I can do or set to get it to work properly on windows 7 ?

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• I would recommend running the software under a virtual machine, rather than using a compatibility option.  Create a new virtual machine in your operating system of choice (it seems like NT might be a good option) and install the software exactly as you would if you were running on an NT machine.  The Windows 7 file and directory structure can be ignored, and you are subject only to the security requirements of NT.  It does make transferring files between the virtual machine and the host a little more complex, but not significantly so.

  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

  Note that you may have to experiment to determine whether Virtual PC for Windows 7 will run NT as a guest, or whether Virtual PC 2007 (which will run NT as a guest) runs on Windows 7 - one or other of those options should work.

  • Marked as answer by Chao KuoModerator Monday, January 18, 2010 8:06 AM

In between Microsoft and Intel's ownership of their famous FORTRAN compiler, DEC (later Compaq) owned it. Featuring the same IDE used in Visual C++ 6, it lets you make Fortran programs for Windows 9x and NT. On the CD is 6.5 and updates for 6.6C.

Tested in 86box and VMWare.

how i can install compaq visual fortran on windows 7 64-bit? it is not compatible with win64

asked Mar 12, 2011 at 22:41

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No, I don't think so. According to Steve Lionel, of Powerstation/Digital/Compaq/Intel Fortran fame (the man's been at it for some time :) CVF has some trouble running on Win7. Not suprising, since it is a product whose development has been discontinued sometimes about 5 years ago.

My recommendation is that you upgrade to Intel Fortran, which is of the same line, meaning all your libraries (for example, for plotting on screen) will still be there. Their new product recently has introduced more than a few significant changes, and it is well worth it. Runs on VS2010 (full or shell) so you shouldn't have any trouble with it.

answered Mar 12, 2011 at 23:05

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Contrary to what has been said, the Compaq Fortran 6 environment can be run within Windows 7 - 64 bits. Personally, I ran the setupx86.exe file located in the X86 subdirectory of the CVF CD, but I specified that the files should be put into the Program Files (x86) directory. Then when I ran the Developer Studio and tried to compile a Fortran program. It said it did not find some libraries. So, within the CVF environment, I clicked on Tools/Options/Directories and told the program to get library, include,... files from the Program Files (x86) directory. Then everything worked just swell ! If not, try to use the compatibilty option by right clicking on the Developer Studio icon.

answered May 17, 2016 at 15:20

Assuming your copy of Windows 7 is one of the higher end versions that supports it, you can install "Windows XP Mode" (really, a copy of Microsoft's virtual machine) and probably run it under that.

answered Mar 12, 2011 at 22:47

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