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Title: Free Borland C++ Command Line Tools
Description: Has anyone has any luck with them?


dr voodoo - July 16, 2003 12:16 PM (GMT)
First the link:
ftp://ftpd.inprise.com/download/bcppbuild...ndLinetools.exe
It's a free version of the Borland C++ compiler version 5.5 as commandline version. I tried to get it to work but it didn't do what I wanted (It did nothing). :(

If anyone has some experience (or simply knows how to get it to work) could he please show me how to compile/build a simple hello word program?

Dragon - July 17, 2003 09:14 PM (GMT)
What's the difference between a normal compiler and a 'commandline' version?

Xception - July 17, 2003 10:46 PM (GMT)
With the commandline compiler you have to type the compilername, the options and your sourcefiles in a dos box, the same for linking the program. The opposite would be an IDE or GUI where you click on the options and on a button to build your program and the IDE calls then the commandline compiler and linker.

dr voodoo - July 18, 2003 09:34 AM (GMT)
I got the compiler running :D :lol: :)
That is it can't find the headers but that probably is some typo of mine in the configuration. For everyone that is having problems with it check this site:
http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,21205,00.html
It explaines in great detail (everything step by step) how to compile a hello word program.

EDIT: Now everything is working. I simply wrote in the configuration file "l-" instead of "I-". The font used on the website I mentioned doesn't make a diffrence between a little l and a big I.




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