Subj : Re: do there any option of "bcc32 source.cpp" compile source.cpp into specific directory
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date : Tue Feb 08 2005 08:58 pm

The normal way things are done is to create a directory for each project.
For example, on my machine I have a directory named Projects and each
project is a directory contained in it.

Source files and projects are almost never located in the root directory of
a drive as you show for c:\source.cpp  That is not only by convention.  It
is because of the physical limitations of the disk drive.  You can have
almost any number of files and directories in any directory EXCEPT for the
root directory.  The root directory has a severe limitation on how many
items, the sum of how many files and how many directories, it can contain.
Never put a project into the root directory.

As for the compiler and linker, they have little or no limitations on the
directories used.   For example you could use c:\src, c:\objs and c:\exes
for the directories and do something like this:

  bcc32 -c -W -v c:\src\file1.cpp -o c:\objs\file1.obj
  ilink32 /Tpe/aa/c/x c0w32 c:\objs\file1,c:\exes\file1,,import32 cw32

For a description of the compiler's -o option
Start the Borland C++ help
Click on the Index tab
Type BCC32 into the edit control
Click on the Display key

..  Ed

> a wrote in message
> news:42090daf@newsgroups.borland.com...
> for example,
> When i have file in c:\source.cpp want to compile execute file into the
> folder d:\compile\source.exe
>
> What the command, i can use in this case?

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