Hi. I have installed Harbour on my Windows 64 machine... but have absolutely no clue how to use this. It just installed, and I have a tree with a bunch of executables.
If I wanted to write a hello world program (which I have done), what steps must I take to actually be able to use Harbour as intended... ie, make a hello.exe file? I am surprised that nowhere in the FAQ is this question answered, or even addressed. I feel like I missed the school day when "how to generate, compile, link, and make .exe" discussions were held. I tried to experiment, and ran C:\>harbour hello.prg. Now I have a C file generated... I don't understand in a harbour context what I'm susposed to do with this. Obviously it won't compile without a few arguments to MinGW or gcc. Since I couldn't find any hints or explanations, I tried compiling it on my Linux machine as it has gcc setup easily, and it complains about missing headers, which I kind of guessed would happen. So, maybe the most obvious question of all for the FAQ: "I installed Harbour. How do I make an .exe from a helloworld.prg file?" or something to that effect. Am I simply missing a simple batch file that will just do all this linking work for me, so that hello.prg turns into an .exe without any fuss or frustration? Could someone please kindly explain what I am missing? Since old DOS apps like Turbo C or Pascal, or Microsoft Basic let you do this without the slightest thought, is this not already done with Harbour? Many thanks in advice! PS: I have seen that it can be made into an exe, as the screenshot showing a Hello World working made it clear, yet the advice on "how to compile" only lists Linux as a simple guide. *sad face* -- smu johnson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Harbour-users mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour-users
