Overview: Building Applications

Welcome to the Intel® Fortran Compiler.

This Building Applications document explains how to use the Intel® Compiler to build applications on Linux*, Windows*, and Mac OS* X operating systems. Intel® Fortran provides you with a variety of alternatives for building applications. Depending on your needs, you can build your source code into several types of programs and libraries using the command line. Additionally, on Windows systems, you can use the Microsoft Visual Studio* integrated development environment (IDE) and on Mac OS X operating systems, you can use the Xcode* IDE to build your application.

The discussions in this document often contain content that applies generally to all supported operating systems; however, where the expected behavior is significantly different on a specific OS, the appropriate behavior is listed separately.

In general, the compiler features and options supported on Linux OS using IA-32 architecture or Intel® 64 architecture are also supported on Intel®-based systems running Mac OS X. For more detailed information about support for specific operating systems, refer to the appropriate option in the Compiler Options reference or the Release Notes.