fpm-gui is a straigtforward user-interface to use the fpm Fortran package manager via a graphical user-interface instead of the commandline.
It helps with the following tasks:
- Retrieve the source code for a particular package
- Build the package
- Install the package for use in other programs or contexts
Current version: 0.1, dd. may 2021.
There are a lot of functions that are planned but not yet implemented.
fpm-gui is built in Tcl/Tk and is thus a platform-independent user-interface. What is required is a Tcl/Tk runtime environment for the platform, such as wish or tclkit.
The current, preliminary, version of fpm-gui relies on several external programs and program suites:
- git - to retrieve the source code (in fact a clone of the packages will be created when you retrieve them).
- gfortran - used as the (default) compiler. It is planned to support other Fortran compilers in later versions.
- xdg-open - required on Linux-like platforms (also for Cygwin) for displaying web pages; on "plain" Windows this is taken care of in a different way.
Last but not least: fpm itself.
Installation is straightforward:
- Put the files in the repository in a subdirectory "fpm" under your home directory (in Windows this is probably
c:\users\<yourname>) - Copy the fpm executable into the same directory
It will use the following directories for its operation (the tilde indicates the user's home directory):
~/fpm- installation directory~/fpm-packages- to store the source for the packages in and to install the executables and libraries
You can start the GUI by running:
wish ~/fpm/fpm-gui.tcl
Note: The installation directory ~/fpm is used to store some temporary files, so it must be writeable.
Note: In a next version this procedure will be further simplified by providing a standalone executable per platform.