The simplest way to build an application is to compile all of your Intel® Fortran source files and then link the resulting object files into a single executable file. You can build single-file executables using the ifort command from the command line. For Windows*, you can also use the visual development environment.
The executable file you build with this method contains all of the code needed to execute the program, including the run-time library. Because the program resides in a single file, it is easy to copy or install. However, the project contains all of the source and object files for the routines that you used to build the application. If you need to use some of these routines in other projects, you must link all of them again.
Exceptions to this are as follows:
If you are using shared libraries, all code will not be contained in the executable file.
On Mac OS*, the object files contain debug information and would need to be copied along with the executable.