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From: Alex Blekhman on 5 Nov 2009 11:20
"andrey the giant" wrote:
> Looking at the output of cl /?, /o maps to /Fe, /Fo, /Fp
> depending on presence or absence of /c, /E

Also, you can use linker's /OUT switch to specify output file
name.

> I'm guessing the deprecation warning says "/o is undocumented,
> use at your own risk". Being a UNIX guy, I'm used to using -o to
> specify output.

I think they keep this switch for compatibility with gcc. I
personally have never heard of it. It is completely undocumented.

Alex



From: Tim Roberts on 6 Nov 2009 01:30
andrey the giant <andrey.vul(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Other compilers, such as gcc and icc, directly create the executable
>from the source unless you run it in two stages:
>$(CC) -c foo.c -o foo.o
>$(CC) foo.o -o bar

Actually, they don't. They run the two steps separately, then delete the
object file afterward.

>When I run VC9, $(CC) foo.c -o bar.exe creates foo.o, when I didn't
>ask for it.

Well, it creates foo.obj. Just embed an erase command in the makefile.
--
Tim Roberts, timr(a)probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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