


Hi Adam, I've seen those linking error messages when running Abaqus if the environment isn't set up completely to find Intel Fortran and find Microsoft Visual Studio. This forum is not a suitable substitute for the software vendor's own instructions and support system. If you look around the Intel site, you will find instructions about installing the SDK if you insist on not using the VS2015 updates (and find a way to avoid them). Your failure to find the standard and vendor specific C support libraries leads to suspicion that you didn't install a suitable Visual Studio, or, in VS2015, you didn't select the C and library SDK options which are presented more usefully now on the VS2015 update 1 install menu.

However, the instructions are clear that you must have a Microsoft Visual Studio installation compatible with your ifort (the Visual Studio Shell which comes with ifort will not suffice).
