The Intel® Fortran Compiler compiles Fortran source files for Intel® 64 and IA-32 architectures.

Prerequisites

Before you can use this tool, you must first set the environment variables by running the environment script as described in the edition-specific Getting Started documentation.

Using the Command Line

To invoke the compiler from the command line, use a command similar to the following:

ifort my_source_file.f90

Following successful compilation, the compiler creates an executable file in the current directory.

Documentation and Resources

Document Description

Samples

Installed Samples - Lists the installed sample projects for use with the compiler. Learn specific compiler optimizations, features, tools, and programming concepts.

User and Reference Guide for Intel® Fortran Compiler 16.0

The Intel® Compiler documentation contains information on:

  • How to get started using the command line or

  • Support for technologies and architectures, including OpenMP*, Fortran language extensions, coarrays, Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel® MIC Architecture), and fpp preprocessing

  • Compiler reference material, including options, program structures, class and math libraries, and much more

Intel® Software Documentation Library

Documentation for the Intel® Fortran Compiler on the Intel® Developer Zone.

Other help

You can access general help for compiler options by entering ifort -help at the command line.