Silverfrost FTN95
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| Developer(s) | Silverfrost |
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| Stable release |
8.10 / February 19, 2017
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Compiler |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | http://www.silverfrost.com |
Silverfrost FTN95: Fortran for Windows is a Fortran compiler for Microsoft Windows. It generates code for native IA-32 Win32, x86-64 and for Microsoft's .NET platform. FTN95 comes in three licensed editions: Commercial, Academic and Personal. The Personal edition is free and is designed for personal use. Programs written with the Personal edition show a banner for a short time when they are run.
FTN95, like it predecessor FTN77, has strong run-time checking options, collectively called CHECKMATE. Compiler switches can turn on various levels of run-time checking. These include array bound checks, constant modification, DO LOOP modification, argument checking and undefined variable use. Program run-times are increased when checking is used.
ClearWin+ is a library built into the FTN95 run-time system. It offers an easy to use interface to the Windows API and is not available when producing .NET code. It makes use of a set of format codes and call-backs. The format codes resemble C style printf codes. ClearWin+ is used to power the UI for Simfit. From FTN95 version 7.00 a 64-bit version of ClearWin+ is included. This can be used with existing, free, 64-bit compilers. From version 8.00 on-wards FTN95 can compile to 32- or 64-bits.
A simple ClearWin+ program:
FTN95 was the first Fortran compiler capable of producing code for Microsoft .NET. In addition plug-ins are available that allows FTN95 programs to be written, compiled and debugged inside Visual Studio. The plug-ins fully support Win32 and .NET code generation. The current release has plug-ins for Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015. The FTN95 plug-ins can be installed into Visual Studio Community Edition.
Plato is the Integrated Development Environment supplied with FTN95. It can edit, compile and debug programs in a manner similar to the Visual Studio plug-ins. Although Plato specialises in Fortran it is not limited to it and can be tuned to work with any compiler. It is designed to stand-alone from FTN95.
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