Starting from Intel® Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran Windows* 2016, a Fortran development environment based on Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Shell is provided in this package.
Prerequisite to install Visual Studio 2013 Shell is described here.
By default, if a supported version of Visual Studio cannot be found on the system, Intel® Visual Fortran 2016 installer will detect it and install Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Shell* automatically.
However sometimes the automatic installation does not work or causes error like following:
To troubleshoot such issues and find the root cause, it is required to manually install Visual Studio 2013 Shell.
Follow below steps to install Visual Studio 2013 Shell manually:
- Start Intel® Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran Windows* 2016 as normal. In extracting package to folder dialogue box, uncheck “Remove temporarily extracted files after installation” as shown below:
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- Click “Extract”.
- After extraction finish, click cancel installation.
- Go to the extracted folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Download\parallel_studio_xe_2016_composer_edition_for_fortran_setup\
- Find VS2013 shell setup tool from subfolder:
installs\cmp_and_libs\1*0\ww_vsshell_2013_isolated
- Try run “vs_isoshell.exe”.
You may encounter other errors after run "vs_isoshell.exe". Follow the error message reported from Microsoft Visual Studio installer to clean those problems.
Until you see no error reported to install Visual Studio 2013 Shell, you have two choices to follow:
1. Stop installing Visual Studio 2013 Shell manually. Start Intel® Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran Windows* 2016 again to install Visual Studio 2013 Shell automatically and integrate with Intel Fortran. The installation should go smoothly this time.
2. Continue installing Visual Studio 2013 Shell manually. After finish, restart Intel® Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran Windows* 2016 to integration with it.
Now you may verify your installation by either command prompts or Visual Studio 2013 Shell graphic development environment.
To start integrated command prompt with Visual Studio 2013, go to Start menu -> Programs -> Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 -> Compiler and Performance Libraries -> Command Prompt with Intel Compiler 16.0 -> IA-32/Intel64 Visual Studio 2013 environment.
If you have questions about this, please ask in our User Forum or at Intel® Premier Support.