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C++ Cookbook
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C++ Cookbook

by D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins, Jonathan Turkanis, Jeff Cogswell
November 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
594 pages
16h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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1.20. Specifying a Command-Line Option from Your IDE

Problem

You want to pass a command-line option to your compiler or linker, but it doesn’t correspond to any of the project settings available through your IDE.

Solution

Many IDEs provide a way to pass command-line options directly to the compiler or linker. This is summarized in Table 1-18 and Table 1-19.

Table 1-18. Specifying a compiler option from your IDE

IDE

Configuration

Visual C++

From your project’s property pages, go to Configuration Properties C/C++ Command Line and enter the option under Additional options.

CodeWarrior

n/a

C++Builder

n/a

Dev-C++

From Project Options, select Parameters and enter the option under C++ Compiler.

Table 1-19. Specifying a linker option from your IDE

IDE

Configuration

Visual C++

From your project’s property pages, go to Configuration Properties Linker Command Line and enter the option under Additional options.

Metrowerks

n/a

C++Builder

n/a

Dev-C++

From Project Options, select Parameters and enter the option under Linker.

Discussion

Visual C++ provides extensive configuration options through its graphical interface, but it also allows you to specify command-line options explicitly. CodeWarrior and C++Builder do not allow you to set command-line options explicitly, but this is generally not a problem, since like Visual C++ they both provide extensive configuration options through their graphical interfaces. Some IDEs, on the other hand, provide little means to configure ...

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