[Dev-C++] using the Mingw compiler as a command line tool

[Luigi S. <gi...@li...>]

Hello !

I'm not very happy about the following features of Dev-C++:
- there is no way to compile a single file
- "compile project" compiles everything (even files for which obj is
   up-to-date)

I decided to work around this by using directly the Mingw compiler.
To start, I looked at the file produced by Dev when you ask to generate the 
makefile and I have some questions:
- has a DOS command line (Win 98 - DOS box) any max length (in old DOS there
   was a 128 char limit)?
- does gcc have anyhing like the "response file" of bcc32?
- when developing a console mode application, do I need to link rsrc.o?

thank you for your help.

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gisan