Building Programs and Libraries

Visual Fortran includes the Microsoft visual development environment (also used by the same version of Visual C++®) and associated Visual Studio software development tools. This industry-leading environment makes it easy for you to create, debug, and execute your programs. It includes a full-feature text editor, debugger, and interactive help. You can build your source code into several types of programs and libraries, either using the visual development environment or working from the command line. For an introduction to this environment, see Compaq Visual Fortran Installing and Getting Started.

This section describes how to use the visual development environment to define a project, open and close a project workspace, and build a project:

• Overview of Building Projects
• Types of Projects you can build
• Defining Your Project and selecting project features with the visual development environment
• Errors During the Build Process
• Compiler Limits
• Running Fortran Applications
• Copying Projects
• Visual Fortran Samples

For more information on:

• Building programs and libraries at the command line, see: Using the Compiler and Linker from the Command Line and Using Visual Fortran Tools.
• Using the Debugger, see Debugging Fortran Programs.
• Details about using the development environment, see the Visual C++ User's Guide.