Understanding File Extensions

Input File Extensions

The Intel® Fortran Compiler interprets the type of each input file by the file name extension.

The file extension determines whether a file gets passed to the compiler or to the linker. The following types of files are used with the compiler:

• Files passed to the compiler: .f90, .for, .f, .fpp, .i, .i90, .ftn

  Typical Fortran source files have a file extension of .f90, .for, and .f. When editing your source files, you need to choose the source form, either free-source form or fixed-source form (or a variant of fixed form called tab form). You can use a compiler option to specify the source form used by the source files (see the description for the free or fixed compiler option) or you can use specific file extensions when creating or renaming your files. For example, the compiler assumes that files with an extension of:

  • .f90 or .i90 are free-form source files.

  • .f, .for, .ftn, or .i are fixed-form (or tab-form) files.

• Files passed to the linker: .a, .lib, .obj, .o, .exe, .res, .rbj, .def, .dll

The most common file extensions and their interpretations are:

When you compile from the command line, you can use the compiler configuration file to specify default directories for input libraries. To specify additional directories for input files, temporary files, libraries, and for the files used by the assembler and the linker, use compiler options that specify output file and directory names.

Output File Extensions (Windows* OS)

On Windows* operating systems, many compiler options allow you to specify the name of the output file being created. These compiler options are summarized in the table below.

If you specify only a filename without an extension, a default extension is added for the file being created.