List of Fortran software and tools
This is a list of software and programming tools for the Fortran programming language, including IDEs, compilers, libraries, debugging tools, numerical and scientific computing tools, and related projects.
Fortran compilers
- Absoft Pro Fortran — Absoft Pro Fortran is discontinued and ran on Linux and macOS
- AOCC — from AMD
- Classic Flang — part of the LLVM Project
- LLVM Flang — part of the LLVM Project
- Fortran 77 — Fortran 77 was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation, it is discontinued.
- G95 – portable open-source Fortran 95 compiler
- GCC (GNU Fortran)
- PGI compilers – NVIDIA developed compilers after acquiring The Portland Group
- IBM XL Fortran — IBM XL Fortran is current and runs on Linux (Power/AIX) and integrates with Eclipse
- Intel Fortran Compiler – part of Intel OneAPI HPC toolkit
- LFortran — LFortran is current, cross-platform, and has IDE support.
- MinGW – cross compiler and forked into Mingw-w64
- Open64 — Open64 is an open-source compiler that has been terminated and ran on Linux
- Open Watcom — Open Watcom is current, runs on MS-DOS and OS/2, and has IDE support.
- Oracle Fortran — Oracle Fortran is discontinued, ran on Linux and Solaris.
- ROSE — source-to-source compiler framework developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Silverfrost FTN95 — FTN95 from Silverfrost is current, runs on Windows, and has IDE support.[1]
Integrated development environments (IDEs) and editors
- Code::Blocks — supports Fortran with plugins[2]
- Eclipse IDE — with Fortran support via Photran[3]
- Emacs — extensible text editor with built-in Fortran modes and support for modern tooling via language servers[4]
- Geany — lightweight cross-platform IDE based on GTK
- IntelliJ IDEA — cross-platform IDE by JetBrains with Fortran pluggin[5]
- KDevelop — KDE-based IDE
- NetBeans — Apache software foundation IDE with Fortran configuration[6]
- OpenWatcom — IDE and compiler suite for C, C++, and Fortran
- Simply Fortran — standalone Fortran IDE for Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Vim — modal text editor with native Fortran syntax support and extensive plugin-based development features[7]
- Visual Studio — with Intel Fortran integration
- Visual Studio Code — supports Fortran via extensions[8]
Mathematical libraries
Scientific libraries
- ABINIT — software suite to calculate optical, mechanical, vibrational, and other observable properties of materials
- Cantera — chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite
- CERN Program Library — collection of Fortran libraries for physics applications from CERN
- CP2K — quantum chemistry and solid-state physics software package for atomistic simulations
- Dalton — molecular electronic structure program
- FFTPACK — subroutines for the fast Fourier transform
- Kinetic PreProcessor – open-source software tool used in atmospheric chemistry
- MESA — Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics
- Nek5000 — MPI parallel higher-order spectral element CFD solver
- NWChem — open-source high-performance computational chemistry software
- Octopus — real-space Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory code
- MODTRAN – model atmospheric propagation of electromagnetic radiation
- MOLCAS — quantum chemistry software package for multiconfigurational electronic structure calculations
- NOVAS – software library for astrometry-related numerical computations
- Physics Analysis Workstation – data analysis and graphical presentation in high-energy physics
- Quantum ESPRESSO — integrated suite for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling
- SIESTA — first-principles materials simulation code using density functional theory
- Tinker — software tools for molecular design[10]
Debugging and performance tools
- GDB — GNU Debugger with Fortran support
- Valgrind — memory debugging and profiling tool
- VTune Profiler — performance analysis tool
- Allinea Forge — debugger and profiler for HPC applications[11]
Build and package management
- Autotools — build system supporting Fortran projects
- CMake — cross-platform build system supporting Fortran
- Make — build automation tool
- Spack — package manager for HPC software including Fortran libraries[12]
Machine learning and AI libraries
- Athena[13]
- Fiats (Functional Inference And Training for Surrogates)[14]
- FNN (Fortran Neural Network)[15]
- FortNN[16]
- Fortran-TF-lib (Fortran interface to TensorFlow)[17]
- FTorch (Fortran interface to PyTorch)[18]
- MlFortran[19]
- RoseNNa[20]
Parallel and high-performance computing tools
- MPI Fortran bindings — standard interface for distributed-memory parallelism
- OpenMP — shared-memory parallel programming support through compiler directives[21]
- Coarray Fortran — parallel programming model introduced in Fortran 2008[22]
- ScaLAPACK — parallel linear algebra package built on top of LAPACK[23]
Testing frameworks
- FUnit — open-source unit testing framework developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center, for Fortran 90, 95, and 2003.[24]
- pFUnit — unit testing framework for Fortran, modeled after JUnit
Documentation and code analysis tools
- FORD — automatic documentation generator for modern Fortran projects
- SQuORE — software quality and management platform with code analysis support[25]
- Understand — static analysis and code comprehension tool for large Fortran projects[26]
See also
- Comparison of programming languages
- Fortran programming language on Wikibooks
- High-performance computing
- List of Fortran books
- Lists of programming software development tools by language
- Numerical analysis
External links
- Fortran-lang.org — community and resources
- GNU Fortran official site
- Intel Fortran Compiler
- NAG Fortran Compiler
References
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- ^ "Code::Blocks IDE for Fortran | CBFortran". cbfortran.sourceforge.io. Retrieved 2025-11-22.
- ^ "Eclipse Photran Fortran Development Tools | projects.eclipse.org". projects.eclipse.org. Retrieved 2025-11-22.
- ^ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fortran.html
- ^ "Satamas/Fortran-plugin". GitHub.
- ^ "Apache NetBeans archive". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016.
- ^ https://fortran-lang.org/learn/os_setup/text_editors/
- ^ "IDEs — Fortran Programming Language".
- ^ "Fortran libraries for linear algebra, optimization, root-finding etc. — Fortran Programming Language".
- ^ "Applications and libraries for applied mathematical and scientific problems — Fortran Programming Language".
- ^ "Allinea Forge User Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-02.
- ^ "Build tools — Fortran Programming Language".
- ^ "Athena". GitHub.
- ^ "Fiats". GitHub. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- ^ "FNN". GitHub.
- ^ "FortNN". GitHub.
- ^ "fortran-tf-lib". GitHub. Cambridge ICCS.
- ^ "FTorch". GitHub. Cambridge ICCS.
- ^ "MlFortran". GitHub.
- ^ Bati, Ajay; Bryngelson, Spencer H. (2024). "RoseNNa: A performant, portable library for neural network inference with application to computational fluid dynamics". Computer Physics Communications. 296 109052. arXiv:2307.16322. Bibcode:2024CoPhC.29609052B. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2023.109052.
- ^ "Specifications".
- ^ "Parallel programming with Fortran 2008 and 2018 coarrays".
- ^ "ScaLAPACK Users' Guide".
- ^ "Fortran Unit Testing Framework (fUnit v1.0) (LAR-17081-1)". NASA Software Catalog. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
- ^ "Squore Architecture [Administration] · Squore 25.0.0".
- ^ "Understand - User Guide and Reference Manual" (PDF). September 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-04-23.