Compiler platform listings

[jacobwilliams]

The compiler listings should be more specific about which platforms are supported by which compilers. Some are listed, but some are not clear.

[certik]

This is something that we will have to have establish communication with the compiler vendors. Which we should.

[awvwgk]

I originally added the supported platforms for all commercial compilers that offer free community versions. This way it was easy enough to verify whether the compiler is actually usable for the respective platform / architecture combination.

This leaves the open source compilers:

• GFortran, as part of GCC it is available on pretty much every major platform / architecture:
  • Linux / x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, ia64, s390, sparc, ...
  • FreeBSD / x86_64
  • OpenBSD / x86_64
  • OSX / ppc64le, x86_64, aarch64
  • Windows (MinGW) / x86_64
  • Windows (Cygwin) / x86_64
  • Solaris / sparc, x86_64
  • AIX / ppc64le
  • probably more...
• LFortran:
  • Linux / x86_64
  • OSX / x86_64, aarch64
  • Windows / x86_64

No idea about flang and f18. I know that at least (classic) flang is available for Linux / x86_64 and conda-forge's fork also provides support for Windows / x86_64. It is also difficult to track down on repology and similar because some projects package the (classic) flang, usually by release date, and some package f18 under the name flang, usually by LLVM version number, but I have already seen packaged versions of (classic) flang under the LLVM version number.

Here is what I could find out about the other commercial compilers by checking their webpage

• NAG:
  • Linux / x86_64
  • OSX / x86_64, aarch64
  • Windows / x86_64
• Absoft
  • Linux / x86_64
  • OSX / x86_64
  • Windows / x86_64

For other commercial compilers it is not that clear.

[Beliavsky]

This issue should be consolidated with #74 , "List compilers by platform".