Hello everybody
We just bought the Intel Visual Fortran Studio XE 2013 for Windows but we have not been able to install it to the level of getting the compiler to work.
Sorry for asking such a general request, but I am not sure where to ask. I logged in to the Intel support website and I tried to submit a help request but I could not pass beyond the first step to input the product for which I am requesting help (The 'next' button never becomes active, so I could not progress with my help request).
The installation process seems to work well. I ran the setup programme using the default options and no error message was reported when the setup programme was running. After the installation finished I checked what was installed and noticed that several folders were created within the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel". They are:
Advisor XE
Advisor XE 2015
Composer XE
Composer XE 2015
Inspector XE
Inspector XE 2015
Parallel Studio XE 2015
VTune Amplifier XE
VTune Amplifier XE 2015
However, after I have not been able to use the fortran compiler at all, either within the visual studio 2013 or within a cmd windows.
First, I cannot create a fortran project within the Visual studio because the needed templates are missing. I assume that they should have been added during the installation process. I have searched in the internet how to get them added into Visual studio but without mucch success. Some of links I found suggest to use some ".bat" scripts to add the templates, but I could not find them in the installed files.
There after I tried to see if I could be able to at least run the compiler outside the Visual studio, but without much success. I tried to compile one of the examples included with the original intel fortran package (i.e. Copy Folder). First the folder where the compiler (ifort) is not included in the path so it could find it. After, I used the full path for "ifort" ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Composer XE 2015\bin\intel64\ifort") and the programme ran, but it could not link the source code. I get the error message:
ifort: error #10037: could not find 'link'
I have searched in the internet to see if somebody has reported the same error and how this was solved, but the answer was that this type of error messages appear when the installation was not done properly. :-)
Obviously, the installation was not done properly but I do not know what I am doing wrong. The setup programme does not have many options to choose from, so I am not sure what I could have done to end with a completely non workable compiler (i.e. I cannot be used it within the visual studio to aid with the programming nor I cannot use the fortran compiler in a cmd to compile exiting source code).
sorry again for this long and general question, but I was not able to submit the help request to the Intel premium support site.
ricardo