Re: [Dev-C++] Path and name of executable file changed involuntarily.

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

It seems like you have a symbol hh defined as '\', resulting in 'hh.exe'
being rewritten as '\.exe'.

/Per W

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Jimmy Lao wrote:

> I have a project named "hh" in "E:\MyApp\hh\" with all default settings.
> A month ago, it worked well. Now it doesn't work.
>
> When I compile it in Dev-Cpp, it doesn't create executable file "hh.exe"
> in the project directory, while a month ago it did. However, it creates
> an executable file named ".exe" in "E:\". Because of that, using "Compile
> and run" or "debug" in Dev-Cpp always have a message box said "Project is
> not compiled".
>
> If I execute
>      make -f Makefile.win all
> in the command line, the result is still "E:\.exe".
>
> If I change
> 	$(CC) $(LINKOBJ) -o "hh.exe" $(LIBS)
> in the auto-generated "Makefile.win" to
> 	$(CC) $(LINKOBJ) -o hh.exe $(LIBS)
> I have "E:\MyApp\hh\hh.exe", through "make" or Dev-Cpp compilation.
>
> However,
>     gcc.exe main.o  -o "hh.exe"
> and
>     gcc.exe main.o  -o hh.exe
> both generate "E:\MyApp\hh\hh.exe".
>
> I have uninstalled Dev-Cpp and installed it again. The same thing happens.
> My Dev-Cpp version is 4.9.9.0.
>
> I guess there's something to do with the environment variables or Windows
> patches, but just guess.
>
> Would anybody help me? Thanks.