Welcome to Simply Fortran
=========================

Simply Fortran is a professional development environment for the Fortran 
programming language for Windows and GNU/Linux from Approximatrix.   
This Linux-native version integrates with your distribution's Fortran
compiler, probably GNU Fortran, to provide users with a seamless and 
productive software coding suite.

About This Distribution
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This archive contains a single, large exeuctable, "SimplyFortran," that 
should only require a reasonably modern Linux distribution to work.  The 
executable is created using AppImage (http://appimage.org) to package  
all requirements into a single file that should run on almost any 
distribution.  

AppImage requires that FUSE, or Filesystem in Userspace, be configured 
on your system.  Most distributions should have FUSE configured properly 
already.

If you do see errors concerning "libfuse.so.2" when trying to run 
"SimplyFortran," you can still use Simply Fortran.  The executable 
"SimplyFortran" is actually an ISO image (with a bit more information) 
that can be mounted using common image mounting techniques.

Requirements
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Simply Fortran expects that GNU Fortran already be installed and 
available on the path.   If it has not yet been installed, you will see 
a warning when you first run Simply Fortran.

Simply Fortran is built using Ubuntu GNU/Linux 22.04, and it expects 
compatible libc6 and libstdc++ libraries to be installed.  If you see 
any errors mentioning GLIBC or GLIBCXX versions, you may have to install 
a more up-to-date GNU compiler and support libraries. 

This distribution of Simply Fortran is designed primarily for rolling-
release-style distribitions.

Documentation
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After starting Simply Fortran, complete documentation is available from 
the Help menu under "Contents."  

Support
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If you have any questions, please feel free to post on our forums at:

http://forums.approximatrix.com

or send an email to support@approximatrix.com.

Copyright
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Simply Fortan is Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Approximatrix, LLC.
All rights reserved.

Simply Fortran is a trademark of Approximatrix, LLC.

Additional component copyrights are delineated in the online 
documentation.

