Hello, [Plea] This plea for help is directed at experienced Borlanders who know the inside and out of the Borland Compiler and can give me insight as to why I fail miserably at code. [What I am Using] I am on a Windows XP machine and I am using Borland's Free Compiler. [Goal] To link objects together into an executable using ilink32 through command prompt. I would also like to achieve the same results with my make file. The reasoning behind this is so I gain the personal knowledge of knowing how to link files without that automated magic that IDE's provide. [Problem] The problem I am having is that I am obviously doing something wrong and when I get the resulting executable I want after linking it does not work. Here is my make file. [makefile] # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PATHCPP = src\test.cpp CFLAGS1 = -c ExeFile = test.exe ObjectFiles = test.obj ResourceFile = # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- .autodepend BCC32 = bcc32 ILINK32 = ilink32 BRC32 = brc32 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- test.cpp: $(BCC32) $(CFLAGS1) $(PATHCPP) # ILINK32 [@respfile][options] startup myobjs, [exe], [mapfile], [libraries], [deffile], [resfile] test.exe: test.obj ilink32 test.obj,test.exe,,import32.lib cw32.lib ,, # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is what I am compiling. A simple Hello World program. [test.cpp] #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "Hello World!" << std::endl; return 0; }; So when I run my makefile the .obj generates but no linking happens. I can manually enter this line into my command prompt: ilink32 test.obj,test.exe,,import32.lib cw32.lib ,, and it will generate teh .exe .map and all these other files. But when I run my executable is fails greatly. No errors will linking and compiling though. So is there anyone here who can set me straight?

I just use bcc32 to link and let it delegate to the linker how it wants, i.e.:
bcc32 -e"test.exe" test.obj import32.lib cw32.lib

Σnigma

I am aware of that you can link using bcc32 but I would like to know how using just ilink32.

If I wanted to generate a DLL would I not have to use ilink32 or can I generate it with bcc32? I have no interest in creating a dll but just a question.

If I were to use bcc32 to link other objects in later could use provide on an example as what I need to add to my makefile? Because so far my makefile does not work.

When the executable begins it just tell me that is has encoutered a problem.

It is really a shot in the dark anwser here.

If someone were to test my code and post their resulting code that work I could compare my code to theirs to see what is wrong.