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I have been pulling my hair out trying to get gfortran working on my work computer. Nothing worked, but then I found this repo.

Thanks for your hard work, you absolute legend!

I suggest adding the topics fortran-compiler, fortran, gfortran, gcc, lapack, fortran-package-manager, windows in the About section.

Thank you for releasing such great software. 🎉
I installed it immediately and tried it out. I like it very much because it is easy, helpful, and convenient.

After installing quickstart-fortran, I built and installed stdlib using the contained bat file, setup-stdlib.bat.

In the installed directory %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\quickstart_fortran\mingw64\lib\gcc\x86_64-w64-mingw32\10.3.0\finclude, I found many mod files with the prefix test_. I think these are mod files created during the build of tests of stdlib, located in stdlib\test directory, and are not required for using and linking the stdlib.

Can I configure those not to be installed?

Could a reference to this be added to the FortranLang page here under Installing GFortran -> Windows: https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/os_setup/install_gfortran/

Would be nice to have it there so beginners could discover it easier!

The current version of fpm is 0.9.0, released on Jun 2, 2023.

gcc and gfortran are now up to version 13 (13.2 as of 09/12/2023).

Could you update this very useful installer to reflect these newer versions for Windows?

Also, any idea how to use this in GitHub Actions?

@LKedward thanks again for this excellent work. Do you plan to make a new release with most recent gcc compilers, e.g., gfortran-13 or newer if available by the time?
Can you also confirm if you intend to keep the binary file name fixed for the foreseeable future? This would be good for installation automation to find the binary file with the same name always at: https://github.com/LKedward/quickstart-fortran/releases/latest regardless of the release version.