Compiling with VC++ from the command line

If you want to compile from the command line instead of using the MS Integrated Development Environment, here are the compile and link commands copied from the cpi project in the examples directory.

1. Bring up a command prompt.
2. Execute vcvars32.bat to set up the environment variables for VC++.
3. compile example.c:

Debug target: execute this:

cl.exe /nologo /MTd /W3 /GX /Od /I "C: Program Files MPICH SDK include" /D WIN32 /D _DEBUG /D _CONSOLE /D _MBCS /GZ /c example.c

Release target: execute this:

cl.exe /nologo /MT /W3 /GX /O2 /I "C: Program Files MPICH SDK include" /D WIN32 /D NDEBUG /D _CONSOLE /D _MBCS /c example.c


4. link example.obj:

Debug target: execute this:


link.exe ws2_32.lib mpichd.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib  
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib 
odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib   
/nologo /subsystem:console /debug /machine:I386 /out:"example.exe" 
/pdbtype:sept   
/libpath:"C:\Program Files\MPICH\SDK\lib"   
example.obj 

Release target: execute this:




link.exe ws2_32.lib mpich.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib  
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib 
odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib   
/nologo /subsystem:console /machine:I386 /out:"example.exe"  
/libpath:"C:\Program Files\MPICH\SDK\lib"  
example.obj 

Depending on what functions example.c uses, you may not need all the libraries specified above.