Can I use intel fortran without visual studio?

Hi all,

I just installed Intel Fortran 2024.2 without Visual Studio because I don’t have a valid Visual Studio license. As I remember, the early versions of Intel Fortran offered a command-line environment and could compiled without Visual Studio.

I tried to compile a test program using the 2024.2 version but it gave me the following error:

ifx: error #10037: could not find ‘link’

Is “link.exe” provided by Visual Studio? If yes, does it mean the current version of Intel Fortran depends on Visual Studio rather than standalone?

I cannot find an early version of Intel Fortran to download. Is there any way to use Intel Fortran 2024.2 without Visual Studio installed?

Dennis