Subj : Linker Warning: Module Def File
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Todd Burch
Date : Sat Jan 22 2005 03:05 pm


I get a warning every time I link that a module definition file
does not exist and the default options are being used.  

Being the anal retentive person I am, I don't want to get this
warning any more.  

My program is test1.cpp.  I created a file called test1.def and
put it in the same directory, with a few typical module
definition statements in it (like NAME test1, etc.) 

But, it's not being picked up/recognized.  

I tried running IMPDEF, but that didn't seem to do anything and
appeared to require a DLL to exist before running. 

I could not find in the manual or help system
anywhere where it said where this
file was supposed to reside.  Looking through the samples that 
came with BC++ 3.1, there are a few module definition files, so 
it seems as if this is not a required file (and my program does 
run just fine without it) and they all (the sample .def files)
reside in the same directory as the sample source files.

And, I searched this forum too.  Nothing.

I've looked all through the menus to see if there might be
a place that I could set a linker switch to not look for this, 
or to set enough checkboxes (or whatever) so that I could override the defaults, but alas, no success.  

I'm running BCW.  

Thanks, Todd (newbie)

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