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...TheKiller

Installing and running the Command Line Tools
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1. Run freecommandlinetools.exe; choose the
drive and folder into which you want to
install the free C++Builder 5 command line
tool development system.

2. From the bin directory of your installation:
a. Add "c:\Borland\Bcc55"
to the existing path
b. Create a bcc32.cfg file which will set
the compiler options for the Include
and Lib paths (-I and -L switches to
compiler) by adding these lines:
-I"c:\Borland\Bcc55\include"
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"
c. Create an ilink32.cfg file which will set
the linker option for the Lib path by
adding this line:
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"

You have done the part 1. right? Just double clicked on the installation file that you downloaded?

Next move onto step 2.
2a is not ultra important, but it is telling you to edit your autoexec.bat file, and insert a line at the bottom of the file that says this:
path=%path%;C:\borland\Bcc55

that is if you installed it to that directory, the reason for it is so you can just typed in the command from any dosprompt.

2b. Inside the directory C:\borland\bcc55\bin
you must create a file called bcc32.cfg

This is what I have in that file:
-I"C:\borland\BCC55\INCLUDE"
-L"C:\borland\BCC55\LIB"

Also create another file in the same directory called ilink32.cfg and have it contain just this single line:
-L"C:\borland\BCC55\LIB"

the fun part is actually using the compiler. Let me give you an example (I created a shortcut or batch file to do it), and this is the commands it types:
bcc32 -n..\comp\ ..\comp\comp.cpp > ..\comp\compile.txt

the batch file exists in the \bin directory
and it outputs all of the information into a file called compile.txt in a subdirectory I created called \comp

the nice thing about that is, you can drop the compile.txt into a internet explorer window and hit F5 each time you want to view the new status of the most recent compile.

Hey if this is all too much for you... icq me (4866748).

Good luck my friend.

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...TheKiller