Re: Command line compiler

From:

"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:21:31 -0600

Message-ID:

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I realize you are free to use whatever approach you like.

However, as someone who is comfortable with compiling in the IDE, I can't
imagine why you'd want to eliminate that in favor of a command line compiler
and makefile.

I recall the days where I created a makefile and ran nmake. All I can say is
"thank god those days are over."

--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com

"Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org> wrote in message
news:447f097e@news.henrynet.se...

Hi all,

I'm a GNU/Linux developer trying to get comfortable with developing on the
Microsoft platform. At work I have Visual Studio 2003 version 7.1.3088.

I would like to use a command line compiler, my own Makefile, and my own
editor to develop software. I would like to forego the IDE completely.

I've read that there's a command line VC++ compiler called cl.exe, and
even
found it sitting on my hard drive:

  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\cl.exe

However, when I try to run the command line compiler (just typed
"cl.exe"), I
get a pop-up window with the error message:

  This application has failed to start because mspdb71.dll was not
  found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

I did a quick search and can't find that dll.

Can someone post simple instructions on how I can get up and running with
the
command line version of a visual C++ compiler?

Thanks,
Pete