My goal is to find a free and relatively easy to use Fortran based IDE for Linux. I am interested in compiling and debugging in a manner similar to setting break points in Visual Studio for C/C++/C#. I understand Code::Blocks with GFortran seems to be one such solution to this problem.
I am relatively new to Linux and all the assortment of things that can be done with it. My primary OS is currently Windows 7 (64 bit), and I have managed to successfully install and configure Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit) inside VirtualBox. I have installed Mono and Code::Blocks as well. All appears working ok thus far.
So now I want to configure GFortran for Code::Blocks. I did find the link [http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Installing_Fortran_Compiler], but I have been unsuccessful in really understanding the steps in the link and getting the Fortran plugin to work. In fact, I believe the link has several referenced steps that don't apply, and may be leaving out many assumed steps. I could really use some more help. Please know my gfortran is installed at /usr/bin, and that is what I used in the steps.
I must be misunderstanding something ... all the configuration I mentioned above I did in roughly a day with very little Linux knowledge ... I can't see why the Fortran plugin for Code::Blocks should pose more of a challenge but it has me stumped.