Installation with root privilage: can't download Intel Fortran F90 compiler

[Tim Prince]

chris@atomice.net wrote:
> It won't work because Cygwin is not a Linux emulator. There are no
> recent Linux emulators/translation layers for Windows and even if you
> did use one the compiler would not generate Windows binaries. You need
> a Windows version of the Intel Fortran compiler or you could use a
> virtual machine (e.g. VirtualBox) / Co-operative Linux to run a full
> Linux session under Windows. 
> 

There is nothing strange about installing Windows ifort in accordance 
with instructions (not using cygwin), then using cygwin as a build 
environment to run ifort, at least for 32-bit builds.  For 64-bit 
builds, some work-arounds are needed, as cygwin tools like ar and link 
don't work.

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