Command Line Compile options

[some1uk03]

I've been testing out compiling via the command line and it seems to be failing me all the time.

Well, it kinda works..OBJ files get created but at the end, the Link object seems to be failing.
It shows a Device I/O error?


Compile.bat

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\VB6.EXE" /make "C:\Users\VB\Desktop\XProj\XProj.vbp" isEXE=-1:isDebug=0

Anything wrong with this?

[wqweto]

Anything wrong with this?

It's missing /d option as in /d const=value[:more_const...]

Try "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\VB6.EXE" /? for a quick cheat-sheet of (some of) the options available.

cheers,
</wqw>

[Elroy]

Hi some1uk03,

I don't use all of the command line options available, but a BAT (batch) file with a command line is the only way I've compiled my primary application for years. There are several other "notes" in the batch file, but here's the main line (edited to make generic) that I use to direct VB6 to compile and link.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\VB6" /MAKE "C:\Users\Elroy\Desktop\SomeFolder\MyProgram.vbp" /outdir "C:\Users\Elroy\Desktop\SomeFolder"

Maybe that'll help.

Elroy

EDIT1: This isn't really true anymore, but I started this (command line compile) practice back when I was developing on laptops that may not have a screen as large as some of my forms. What I found is, if I compile from the IDE, all of the forms in the project get re-adjusted to a maximum size of the computer's screen. However, if I compiled from the command line, it didn't tamper with my form sizes.

Also, as a further note about developing on a computer with a screen smaller than your forms, so long as you don't open the forms in the IDE, you're fine. However, if you open these forms, they'll be resized to the size of the computer's screen, and there's not much you can do about it to put them back to the correct (larger) size. None of my forms are larger than 1920x1080, and it's rare these days that I'm sitting at a computer with a screen smaller than that, but that wasn't always the case.