This article explains how to install, configure and use the IMSL* Fortran Numerical Library, as provided with Intel® Visual Fortran Professional Edition with IMSL*, version 11. It is not applicable to versions of IMSL obtained from other sources.

This article supplements the on-disk documentation provided at Building Applications > Using Libraries > Using the IMSL* Mathematical and Statistics Libraries. Please refer to that text for more detail on using IMSL.

The IMSL* libraries are supplied on a second DVD in boxed products and as separate downloads from the Intel Software Development Products Registration Center. There are three installation files, one for each target architecture. The file names are of the form:

• w_cprofimsl_p_11.0.xxx_ia32.exe - for building applications that run on IA-32
• w_cprofimsl_p_11.0.xxx_intel64.exe - for building applications that run in Intel® 64
• w_cprofimsl_p_11.0.xxx_ia64.exe - for building applications that run on IA-64

You must install the Intel Visual Fortran compiler before installing the IMSL libraries. If you will be developing applications to run on more than one architecture, we recommend that you install the IMSL package for your development computer's architecture last.