FreeCAD

[Sean Farley]

Mark Brethen writes:

> I'm writing a port for FreeCAD which requires a Fortran Compiler. I'm told that Apple's fork of gcc on OSX does not come with FORTRAN. One recommendation is GFortran which can be found here:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#MacOS
>
> I've also read that MacPorts gcc4x packages also include FORTRAN compilers.
>
> Another possible MacPorts package is g95. This seems to be a valid FORTRAN90 compiler and will pass FreeCAD's cmake configuration tests, but the actual build seems to ask for gcc-specific options, so probably easier to stick to gcc4x.
>
> What is the best option?

You could try looking at the sparskit or gildas port for an example of
the compilers portgroup (which was written for exactly this type of
thing). Gildas disables the use of g95 with '-g95' in the setup.