ADW_M2.md

ADW Modula-2 Quick Reference ↩

This document gathers ADW Modula-2 related informations.

Build scripts (Bash scripts, batch files, Make scripts) in our code examples simply provide arguments to the following ADW Modula-2 commands :

Command	Options	Examples
m2amd64.exe	-nowarn a)
	-quiet	hides compiler logo and progress messages
	-sym:<relpath> {,<relpath> }	-sym:target\sym,target\def
sblink.exe	{ @<filepath>b) }	@target\linker_opts.txt

^a) For instance : Warning -- Function procedure called as a procedure
^b) Most compilers support so-called response files ¹.

Footnotes ▴

[1] Response files ↩

Compiler arguments specified in response files are either space-separated or line-separated (as with the ADW Modula-2 compiler).

For instance, the batch command build.bat (in project EstimatePi) generates the following response file to be passed to the ADW linker (sblink.exe) :

> type target\linker_opts.txt
-MACHINE:X86_64
-SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE
-MAP:F:\adw-examples\EstimatePi\target\EstimatePi
-OUT:F:\adw-examples\EstimatePi\target\EstimatePi.exe
-LARGEADDRESSAWARE
target\mod\EstimatePi.obj
target\mod\Rand.obj
C:\opt\ADW-Modula-2\ASCII\rtl-win-amd64.lib
C:\opt\ADW-Modula-2\ASCII\win64api.lib

Let's call sblink.exe directly :

> del target\EstimatePi.exe
 
> c:\opt\ADW-Modula-2\ASCII\sblink.exe @target\linker_opts.txt
Linker. Build ADW 1.6.879
Copyright (C) 2009, by ADW Software
 
Time = 20
Memory = 1816k
 
> dir /s /b target\*.exe
F:\adw-examples\EstimatePi\target\EstimatePi.exe

Here a some references about response files :

• GCC Wiki – Response Files.
• Intel oneAPI C++ – Use Response Files.
• The javac Command – Command-Line Argument Files.
• Microsoft C++ – Specify a Compiler Response File.

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