How do I compile a program once I write it?

adam

"Adam" <Adam_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:dan82c$16cv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> How do I compile a program once I write it?

\dm\readme.html has explicit instructions. If they aren't working for you, please tell me where they went wrong so I can see about improving them.

I understand that the compiler is in \dm\bin\dmc and that you can type your instructions in men.exe but how do you actually connect the two and compile it.

Adam

"Adam" <Adam_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:daom1h$2e3i$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I understand that the compiler is in \dm\bin\dmc and that you can type
your
> instructions in men.exe but how do you actually connect the two and
compile it.

Have you successfully opened a command prompt window?

All I know what to do so far is to type it. After that I can't figure it out. How do you open a command prompt window?

adam

adam escreveu:
> All I know what to do so far is to type it. After that I can't figure it out.
> How do you open a command prompt window?
> 
> adam
Go in Start->Run
in the "Open:" field, type in "cmd"

A command prompt should appear. Something like:

C:\Document ad Settings\username>

is the *prompt*

type there:

C:\Document ad Settings\username>dmc

and report the results back.

When I go to type in dmc after C:\Documents and Settings\username>, it tells me that it is not recognized as an internal or external command. What should I do now?

Adam

Adam escreveu:
> When I go to type in dmc after C:\Documents and Settings\username>, it tells me
> that it is not recognized as an internal or external command. What should I do
> now?
> 
> Adam
You should create a file called, say 'DM.BAT' or 'DM.CMD' with the following contents:
------------------------------>8----- cut here start
SET PATH=D:\DM\BIN;%PATH%
------------------------------8<----- cut here end

Where the 'D:\DM\BIN' should match the place where your bin subdir in your installation is. This is what the line 41 of 'readme.txt' in the Digital Mars compiler installation says you to do.

"adam" <adam_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:dapo5g$asc$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> All I know what to do so far is to type it. After that I can't figure it
out.
> How do you open a command prompt window?

Most of the non-IDDE Digital Mars programs are console programs.
A command prompt window can be created on XP by
clicking on [Start][Command Prompt].

I get what your saying except I don't really understand what the extension .BAT or .CMD is or how to create it. Is what your saying pretty much just a shortcut that is placed in the location or is it something else?

Adam