can we compile fortran files to mex on Windows using WSL ?

Dear all,

I am wondering if one could compile the fortran files to mex using gfortran like in Ubuntu, but now using WSL environment on windows 10 ?

If yes, this would be great help to avoid installing XE and VS 2017

Thanks :)

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Is it possible ? Googling, posts say Yes. For example https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.fortran/c/e-tK0J7fHJM?pli=1

I am far from certain it would be worth the hastles.

(... unless perhaps you are in circumstances that are blocked by the Visual Studios Community license and the Intel XE free licenses. Which is something that I have run into. Those licenses both consider my volunteer assistance here to be outside the scope of "hobby" because the appropriate license test is "personal use" rather than "free". It would cost me about $CDN 10000 per year to maintain the licenses to be able to use them in my volunteer work. So I just don't... I pass on questions that require using those licenses.)

[Hamza OUDICH]

Thanks for the reply @Walter Roberson.

To be more accurate, It is not (but partly) a License problem. I am combining Matlab and Fortran for a code in the university where we mostly use Ubuntu as OS. Hence, we compile the fortran subroutine using the Matlab "mex" and "gfortran" as compiler, and I do this on my workstation. However, I would like also to have fast access to the code and try it on my work laptop which has Windows OS !, without having to install Intel API + VS 2017 (which takes so much space for nothing + encounter lincense issues). This goes without saying that compiling and calling other libraries is easier on Ubuntu while on Windows one may face some issues.

Then, If i have to reformulate the question, can I compile fortran subroutine using mex and gfortran as a compiler on windows through WSL ?

[Walter Roberson]

previous posts have tended to suggest that it is possible but not simple.

[Hamza OUDICH]

Ok I might have found one in your links but on C++ libraries. I will see if I can extend to Fortran.

However, if there are any links showing clearly how to use mex-gfortran on windows It would be nice :)