My problem is that it compiles fine until I try to link to say, the
DISLIN library. It complains that the "Libray file disgf.a is not
recognized as a valid object archive." The programs that I have tried
are the examples in the DISLIN install.


> Bill Walker wrote:
> > I gave up trying to get gfortran to work on my vista machine.
>
> Why? Lots of people run gfortran on vista. As of gcc 4.3 or so
> it has become very stable. Many *major* applications have been
> successfully compiled by it. (Though for best performance, they
> would probably use compilers like Intel or Pathscale.)
>