Hi

I am starting to try and improve the compilation of wxWindows

is it possible to provide a switch to make or dmc so that it puts the output in a specified directory?

I'd like either to have a switch for dmc, like the bcc32 -noutputdir

or be able to parse the filename in make

make .... -oadir\$..obj

where $. gives you the filename. I guess the first is more effieicnet

chris
currently I have make 5.02, dmc 8.29n

> I am starting to try and improve the compilation of wxWindows
[..]
> I'd like either to have a switch for dmc, like the bcc32 -noutputdir
> or be able to parse the filename in make
> make .... -oadir\$..obj
> where $. gives you the filename. I guess the first is more effieicnet
You might try the following:

---------------- makefile -------------------
# makefile for test app.

all: $(OUTDIR)test.exe

$(OUTDIR)test.exe : test.cpp
#       your build command goes here
---------------------------------------------

-------------- commandline ------------------
make -DOUTDIR=test\
---------------------------------------------

Regards,
Mark Junker

>is it possible to provide a switch to make or dmc so that it puts the output in a specified directory?

dmc does it.  Unfortunately I just wasted some time (re)building ACE before noticing that it doesn't do what you expect.

Unfortunately, unlike every other compiler you've used, '-o foo\bar.obj' DOES NOT create file foo\bar.obj as the output.  Its the optimise flag '-o' followed by garbage.

Using '-ofoo\bar.obj' does what we know and love, but if your makefiles are anything like the ACE build system its a pain.

I'm amazed, having started to try dmc I find a lot of the old Zortech stuff is still there.  I understand the history, I'm just surprised that the crufty old codegen options etc etc didn't die when the driver got a new name.

I'll repoprt back on getting ACE (and maybe TAO) to build eventually.  Takes a while 'cos its a train-time project and -HX doesn't work with STLPort.

:-(

(To be fair, it is of course damn fast even with PCH turned off)

James