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Started by Lucidquiet January 25, 2004 03:57 PM

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Lucidquiet

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January 25, 2004 03:57 PM

Is it possible to use MSVC++ Compiler from the command line -- and how? That is my question. I''m not even sure where to start with this, but I hope it can be done. I realize that getting any of the project management out of MSVC++ is probably hopeless from the command line but is there a way to at least get the Compiler Out of the IDE -- so to speak? thanks, L- " ''No one has control -- control is just a fantasy. And being human is difficult.'' "

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SiCrane

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January 25, 2004 04:01 PM

There should be a vcvars32.bat file in a \bin subdirectory of your MSVC installation. Run that from the command line and it should set up the environment variables necessary to use MSVC from the command line. The C++ compiler is cl.exe, the linker is link.exe and the make program is nmake.exe.

Lucidquiet

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January 25, 2004 04:13 PM

Thanks, that seems to work just great.

I was looking at the size of the cl.exe, and link.exe as executables, and they are amazingly tiny, any body have any ideas on that -- I mean I suppose everything it needs is dynamically linked.

Thanks,
L-

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SiCrane

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January 25, 2004 04:20 PM

The executables may be tiny, but there should be some fairly sizable dlls in the directory.

Arild Fines

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January 25, 2004 04:35 PM

It is also possible to invoke the VC++ IDE executable on a workspace file(we are talking VC++6 here, right?) in order to build it from the command line.

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SiCrane

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January 25, 2004 04:43 PM

.NET still has that capability. (Well a solution file, not a workspace file, but the same idea.)

ChaoticCanuck

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January 25, 2004 04:48 PM

LucidQuiet: you will find that you can create remarkably tiny individual binaries by modifying options, but bear in mind that these are loading and calling DLLs which is a little less efficient than executing staticly linked files.

To see which dependancies are needed for a program use Dependancy Walker (depends.exe) which is part of either the Platform SDK, or Microsoft .NET SDK, and IIRC is installed with Visual Studio Professional.

Leffe

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January 25, 2004 05:23 PM

Dependency Walker home page

Lucidquiet

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January 26, 2004 11:23 AM

Thanks everyone... I appreciate all of your answers/post -- pretty amazing really, I didn''t know this stuff... not the foggiest. Thanks for the link to Dependency Walker -- nice.

Thanks, again,
L-

" ''No one has control -- control is just a fantasy. And being human is difficult.'' "

"Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't." -Pete Seegerwww.lucid-edge.net

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