Microsoft KB Archive/28975

QuickC Version 1.01 SETUP.DOC File: Building Libraries (/L) PSS ID Number: Q28975 Article last modified on 04-27-1988 PSS database name: S_QuickC

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Summary: The following information is from the QuickC Version 1.01 SETUP.DOC file.

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Building Libraries (SETUP /L) After installing Version 1.01 files, you may later decide that you need a different set of combined libraries. One way to do this is to build the libraries by hand, using the Microsoft Library Manager (LIB) utility and the list of libraries given in the printed documentation. A more convenient method, however, is to run SETUP with the /L option. If you supply the /L option when invoking SETUP, it creates combined libraries without repeating the installation process. If you need to copy files from a distribution disk, SETUP prompts you to insert each disk as needed, and copies only the files that it needs to create the combined library that you specify. In all other respects but for one, SETUP works just as it does when you install the compiler. That is, it asks you for the memory model and floating-point method that will characterize the combined library you wish to build. In case you installed on a hard disk, SETUP also allows for the possibility that you chose not to delete the component libraries used to build the original combined libraries. Thus, SETUP allows you to specify a directory or a (floppy) disk drive, as the source of the component libraries. The source directory can be the same directory where SETUP places the new combined library. If you specify a directory as the source of files, and SETUP cannot find a file that it needs, it prompts you to specify a new directory as the source. If the needed file no longer exists on your hard drive, you can specify a floppy disk as the source. Note, however, that once you begin reading from a floppy disk, you must allow SETUP to obtain all subsequent files from a floppy disk. Note that SETUP is not designed to build combined libraries on floppy disks using source files from a hard-disk drive.

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