Fortran Package Manager (fpm) is a package manager and build system for Fortran. Its key goal is to improve the user experience of Fortran programmers. It does so by making it easier to build your Fortran program or library, run the executables, tests, and examples, and distribute it as a dependency to other Fortran projects. Fpm's user interface is modeled after Rust's Cargo, so if you're familiar with that tool, you will feel at home with fpm. Fpm's long term vision is to nurture and grow the ecosystem of modern Fortran applications and libraries.
Fpm is an early prototype and is evolving rapidly. You can use it to build and package your Fortran projects, as well as to use existing fpm packages as dependencies. Fpm's behavior and user interface may change as it evolves, however as fpm matures and we enter production, we will aim to stay backwards compatible. Please follow the issues to contribute and/or stay up to date with the development. Before opening a bug report or a feature suggestion, please read our Contributor Guide. You can also discuss your ideas and queries with the community in fpm discussions, or more broadly on Fortran-Lang Discourse.
Fortran Package Manager is not to be confused with Jordan Sissel's fpm, a more general, non-Fortran related package manager.
Binaries for the latest stable release are available to download for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Note: On Linux and MacOS, you will need to enable executable permission before you can use the binary.
e.g. $ chmod u+x fpm-0.6.0-linux-x86_64
The binaries at the current tag are updated automatically to always provide the current git version from the default branch.
Fpm is available on conda-forge, to add conda-forge to your channels use:
conda config --add channels conda-forge
Fpm can be installed with:
conda create -n fpm fpm
conda activate fpm
The conda package manager can be installed from miniforge or from miniconda.
Fpm is available as MinGW package in the MSYS2 package manager, which supports parallelization of the target compilation. To install fpm with pacman use
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-fpm
Afterwards fpm will be available for usage.
Currently i686
, x86_64
and ucrt-x86_64
are supported MinGW architectures for fpm.
For more details check the package information here.
Fpm is available with spack in its develop version. To install fpm from spack use
spack install fpm
You can add +openmp
to enable parallelization of the target compilation in fpm.
To use fpm in your environment load it with
spack load fpm
For more details check the package information here.
The Fortran Package Manager (fpm) is available for the Homebrew package manager via an additional tap. To install fpm via brew, include the new tap and install using
brew tap fortran-lang/fortran
brew install fpm
Binary distributions are available for MacOS 11 (Catalina) and 12 (Big Sur) for x86_64 architectures. For other platforms fpm will be built locally from source automatically.
Fpm should be available and functional after those steps. For more details checkout the tap here.
To setup fpm within Github actions for automated testing, you can use the fortran-lang/setup-fpm action.
For other platforms and architectures have a look at the bootstrapping instructions.
Creating a new fpm project is as simple as running the command
fpm new project_name
. This will create a new folder in your current directory
with the following contents and initialized as a git repository.
fpm.toml
– with your project’s name and some default standard meta-dataREADME.md
– with your project’s name.gitignore
src/project_name.f90
– with a simple hello world subroutineapp/main.f90
(if--app
flag used) – a program that calls the subroutinetest/main.f90
(if--test
flag used) – an empty test program
fpm understands the basic commands:
fpm build
– build your library, executables and testsfpm run
– run executablesfpm test
– run testsfpm install
- installs the executables locally
The command fpm run
can optionally accept the name of the specific executable
to run, as can fpm test
; like fpm run specific_executable
. Command line
arguments can also be passed to the executable(s) or test(s) with the option
-- some arguments
.
See additional instructions in the Packaging guide or the manifest reference.
This guide explains the process of building fpm on a platform for the first time. To build fpm without a prior fpm version a single source file version is available at each release.
To build manually using the single source distribution, run the following code (from within the current directory)
mkdir _tmp
curl -LJ https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/releases/download/current/fpm.F90 > _tmp/fpm.F90
gfortran -J _tmp _tmp/fpm.F90 -o _tmp/fpm
_tmp/fpm install --flag "-g -fbacktrace -O3"
rm -r _tmp
To automatically bootstrap using this appoach run the install script
./install.sh
The table below lists the environment variables that control fpm
's choice of compilers,
compiler flags, archiver locations, and link flags, each of which can be overridden by
passing fpm
flags also shown in the table.
Environment Variable | Defines | Overridden by |
---|---|---|
FPM_FC |
Fortran compiler path | --compiler |
FPM_CC |
C compiler path | --c-compiler |
FPM_FFLAGS |
Fortran compiler flags | --flag |
FPM_CFLAGS |
C compiler flags | --c-flag |
FPM_AR |
Archiver path | --archiver |
FPM_LDFLAGS |
Link flags | --link-flag |