Compiling with Clarion 6 without the IDE

[dema...@gmail.com]

Is it possible to compile a Clarion 6 project through the command line without having to go through the IDE to compile?

Thanks.

[kzendra]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 04:57:19 -0800 (PST), dema...@gmail.com wrote:

> Is it possible to compile a Clarion 6 project through the command line without having to go through the IDE to compile?
>
> Thanks.

IDE must run for that, but it's possible through DDE commands.
Clarion IDE is DDE server, if you create DDE client, you can send build
(execute command on clarion dde server) command.

To check if build is completed, prior to build delete the target file (exe
or dll) and check if file exists (you need to have timeout) and that file
size is not 0 (link error causes file to be created, but empty).



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It's the sudden stop at the bottom.

[PaulEpner]

On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 7:57:21 AM UTC-5, dema...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to compile a Clarion 6 project through the command line without having to go through the IDE to compile?
>
> Thanks.

Do you by any chance have Clarion Handy Tools? There is an automated batch compile for entire projects in the toolkit (along with a bunch of other good things). Just thought I would ask.

[dema...@gmail.com]

No, I'm not familiar with that.

I suppose that since I already have to go through the effort of starting a Win2000 VM just to run this old Clarion version, it isn't much more trouble to just click compile by hand.

To clarify my intentions here, I'm in the process of writing importers to migrate data from an old Clarion app to a new one in C#. I don't intend on staying in this ecosystem.