Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/01/13/01:08:33
I like this change.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2000 16:08
> To: Mingw32 discussion list at eGroups; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: [RFC] changing gcc default output executable name (a.exe
> now)
>
>
> Are people happy/ok with the fact that gcc on win32 produces a program
> called a.exe by default? For example,
>
> $ gcc foo.c
>
> will create a.exe. This is of course not really expected on DOS/Windows
> world, and causes all sorts of confusion. Also, this is simply lame even
> on Unix, and this historical bit should've disappeared long ago, but
> won't since it's a convention now.
>
> 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??
>
> Regards,
> Mumit
>
>
>
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