Bill Walker wrote:
> I am trying to get g77 (gnu fortran) installed and working on a laptop
> with Vista and I have not been suucessful. Has anyone succesfully got
> g77 to work on Vista? If so, let me know and I have some specific
> questions to ask.

Forget g77. It was removed from gcc when 4.0 was released several years
ago. Nobody maintains it. And it only supports an obsolete 30 year old
dialect of Fortran.

The replacement is 'gfortran' - which is a full Fortran 95 (plus much
of Fortran 2003) compiler. Both cygwin and MinGW versions are available
for windoze.

To get started with gfortran, go to:

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran

You might also be interested in the g95 compiler that Andy Vaught
develops:

http://www.g95.org

Andys g95 compiler also supports the full Fortran 95, plus some F2003
capabilities.

W.