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Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name (a.exe now)
- To: mingw32 at egroups dot com, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name (a.exe now)
- From: N8TM at aol dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:17:36 EST
In a message dated 1/12/2000 9:09:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU writes:
> I'd like to move to creating <name>.exe, where <name> is the first file
> on the list you provided to gcc.
>
> $ gcc foo1.c foo2.c foo3.c
>
> will produce foo1.exe, not a.exe as it does now.
>
> Is this something we should change??
I suppose this is the most common mode of operation for commercial Windows
compilers. The Lahey compilers do it this way
$ lf95 sub1.f sub2.f
produces sub1.exe, as does
$ fcc sub1.c sub2.c
Now that is a turkey of a compiler.
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