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

[Elias P. <eli...@ao...>]

> 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)?

AFAICT there is no limit. I'm also using makefiles from a DOS-Box, and it's no problem to give several 100 filenames to gcc.

> - does gcc have anyhing like the "response file" of bcc32?

I'm not completely sure what that is, but if you need it to store options, you can just use a makefile. A description of all the gcc options can be found at:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/gcc_2.html#SEC3
Which is part of some more docs (including make):
http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html

> - when developing a console mode application, do I need to link rsrc.o?

No, and you also don't need any special libraries.
gcc myprogram.o -o myprogram.exe
should be all you need to link a console object file to the .exe. Normally you will also want to use at least the -O3 (turn on optimizations) and -s (strip debugging info) options.
Note, if you are compiling C++ (not plain C), you can always replace gcc with g++ so it automatically uses the additional options and libraries.

Elias Pschernig