So, for background, my most recent programming experience has consisted of Python (anaconda) and matlab, for like the last 7 years or so. I've done C/C++, Obj-C, C#, and a few other languages in the distant past, but I'm super rusty on makefiles and all that.
For work, we have some ancient code written in FORTRAN77 that I need to be able to run. I've got MinGW and gfortran installed (via MSYS), and have gotten sample programs to compile just fine, but for this project I'm going off of images of code, and do not have the original code available in its original digital form. As such, I'm having to do a lot of corrections (I ran it through OCR), and will have to correct some peculiarities specific to whatever unknown mainframe it was originally written for. So I would REALLY like to be able to use VS pro to edit, run and debug the document (about 1k lines of code, very messy).
I'm brand new to VS, and as I said, it's been ages since I did anything but python or matlab, let alone messed with makefiles and toolpaths and such, so I'll be very grateful if anyone can point me in the right direction. Oh, and one important last note: one of the commercial fortran extensions is not a viable option, due to this being a small project, the fact that we probably won't have to mess with fortran often in the future, and our onerous capex request process, hence my desire to use gfortran. Thanks!