Compiling Fortran

[Dimitry Andric]

On 10 Apr 2026, at 19:46, Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon@oca.eu> wrote:
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> On Fri, 10 Apr 2026, Dimitry Andric wrote:
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>> If your package count is much higher, you must be doing something wrong, but it is hard to tell what it is. Maybe you selected _all_ packages by accident?
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> when I saw packet selection [+]All, I clicked on it so it became [-] and I could see the list of packages and search "fortran" and select the right version.
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> This should limit the downloads to what I selected?
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> The free space on my disk decreased by 1 GB.

After installation of the default package selection, and adding of gcc-fortran, the resulting c:\cygwin64 directory on my fresh VM was 694,226,944 bytes. But please take into account that Cygwin is not just a compiler, it's also a whole Unix-like working environment.

-Dimitry