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Chapter 2 Prerequisites for Installing Visual Fortran

This chapter contains the following sections:

2.1 System Requirements for the Three Editions

To run the Standard, Professional, or Enterprise Edition of Visual Fortran, you need a PC with an Intel Pentium series (or 100% compatible) or higher processor (Intel Pentium 90 or higher recommended) running either:

In addition, for the Enterprise Edition there are specific system requirements for the Enterprise Toolkit and Technical Programming Extensions components (see the Installation Guide in the Enterprise Toolkit folder). For example, more hard disk space is needed for these components as well as a Compaq Tru64 UNIX system running the Compaq Fortran compiler.

You also need:

The Visual Fortran setup process lets you select installation options and provides you with the disk space requirements for the options you select. It then checks to make sure you have enough space before copying files.

2.2 Release Notes

Before installing, you should read the Visual Fortran release notes, which are available in text format to be opened in an editor and HTML format to be opened in a Web browser.

You can read the release notes by opening the Relnotes.txt file or the Relnotes.htm file located in the root directory of the Visual Fortran CD-ROM. (Or use the Compaq Visual Fortran Master Setup Window, described in Section 3.3, Using the Visual Fortran Master Setup Window.)

After installation, look at the Release Notes item in the Compaq Visual Fortran 6 program folder. Or you can read the Relnotes.txt file or the Relnotes.htm file installed in: 

\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Df98

2.3 Registration Number

Your registration number (installation number) is located on the Visual Fortran
CD-ROM clear sleeve and also on your license letter. With multiple-user license kits, use the registration number on the license letter.

Note:

Keep your registration number (or a copy of it) in a safe place.

You will need your registration number:

Registering Visual Fortran with Compaq confirms that you are a legally registered user and allows you to receive:

To register your product with Compaq, use the procedure provided after you install Visual Fortran components. See Section 3.8, Registering Visual Fortran With Compaq.

With the Visual Fortran Enterprise Edition, use the registration number on the Visual Fortran Professional Edition folder (or license letter) to install Visual Fortran and Array Visualizer. To install the Enterprise Toolkit components, see Section 3.7, Installing Enterprise Toolkit and TPE Components (Enterprise Edition).

For information on available technical support, see Chapter 10, Visual Fortran Technical Support.

2.4 Optional Software

You can extend the capabilities of Visual Fortran by using it with the following software products not included with the Visual Fortran product:

For more information, see the Excel Web site at:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/excel

For more information, see the Visual SourceSafe Web site at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ssafe/

Users of the Visual Fortran Standard Edition might want to use the following software provided only in the Professional and Enterprise Editions:

For information on how to upgrade from the Standard Edition, See the Visual Fortran Web page at: 

http://www.compaq.com/fortran

2.5 Considerations for Installing with Visual Studio Products

You should install any Microsoft Visual Studio Version 6 products before you install Visual Fortran Version 6.6. If you installed Visual C++ after installing Visual Fortran, see Section 4.15, Updating Include and Library Paths After Installing Visual C++.

Once you install Visual Fortran, you can run it within the Microsoft Developer Studio visual development environment.

Before you install Visual Fortran on a system where Microsoft Visual Studio products are installed, you need to be aware of the following:

With Visual Fortran Version 5, the default installation directories are:

\Program Files\DevStudio
\Program Files\DevStudio\Df
\Program Files\DevStudio\Vc

With Visual Fortran Version 6, the default installation directories are:

\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Df98
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Vc98

When other languages in a mixed-language application use a different version of Microsoft's visual development environment, you can copy object files into your project workspace, add them to your project, and use the visual development environment to link them into your application.

2.6 Considerations for Installing with Visual Fortran Version 5

Before you install Visual Fortran Version 6.6 on a system where Visual Fortran Version 5 is installed, you need to be aware of the following:

With Visual Fortran Version 5, the default installation directories are:

\Program Files\DevStudio
\Program Files\DevStudio\Df
\Program Files\DevStudio\Vc

With Visual Fortran Version 6.6, the default installation directories are:

\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Df98
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Vc98

For more information, see Section 4.4, Copying Visual Fortran Project Files.

To remove Visual Fortran Version 5, follow the procedure in Section 4.11, Removing Visual Fortran Version 5.

2.7 Considerations for Installing with Visual Fortran Version 6.0, 6.1, or 6.5

Visual Fortran Version 6.6 is considered an update to Version 6 and not a major version release. There are no released versions of Visual Fortran numbered 6.2, 6.3, or 6.4.

Visual Fortran Version 6.6 must be installed in the same directory tree as any previous installation of Version 6.0, 6.1, or 6.5, unless you remove the previous installation from the system. Version 6.0, 6.1, 6.5, and 6.6 cannot coexist on the same system.

You can do either of the following:

2.8 Multiple-User License Considerations

If you purchased a multiple-user license, you receive a single Visual Fortran kit and one license letter which grants permission to install on up to the indicated number of PCs. Use the same registration number on each PC.

Purchasing the multiple-user license allows you to install Visual Fortran in a dedicated networked environment from a server to conserve disk space. To install Visual Fortran in a dedicated networked environment from a server:

  1. Copy the Visual Fortran CD-ROM media to a server's hard disk.
  2. Make the copied Visual Fortran CD-ROM root directory a share on the server, accessible to licensed PCs on which Visual Fortran will be installed.
  3. For each system on which you will install Visual Fortran, map a network drive to the server. Install Visual Fortran from that mapped network drive as if it were the Visual Fortran CD-ROM (click setup.exe). You can select the Run from CD-ROM installation option to conserve local hard disk space. Alternatively, you can select a Custom installation and minimize the disk space used by not selecting software components that can be run from CD-ROM. See Section 3.9, Running Visual Fortran All or Partially from CD-ROM.

Instead of requiring that the CD-ROM be mounted for certain tasks (such as opening Platform SDK online documentation), Visual Fortran accesses the mapped network drive from which installation occurred.

Depending on the locations of systems and network availability, the users of the multiple-user license can include a mixture of network installations from the server and traditional (local disk) installations.

For example, if a user's system is located where dedicated network access is not available (for example, only dial-up networking is available), you should perform a traditional single-user Visual Fortran installation. In this case, select a Custom installation and consider installing all components on the local hard disk because neither the shared CD-ROM nor the networked drive will always be available for the Run from CD-ROM installation option.

With the Professional and Enterprise Editions, Array Visualizer should be installed as usual on each local system's hard disk, because Array Visualizer does not support the Run from CD-ROM option.

Regardless of how it is installed, when the Visual Fortran installation asks for your registration number, use the separate registration numbers provided on each license letter for each system.

If you have any license-related questions, please carefully read your license letter, or contact Compaq technical support. See Chapter 10, Visual Fortran Technical Support.

2.9 Concurrent-Use License Considerations

If you purchased a concurrent-use (network) license, you will receive a single Visual Fortran kit and a single license.

For details, see Chapter 5, Using a Concurrent-Use License.

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