https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Building-DLLs-from-the-command-line/m-p/949844#M19221 Hi, <BR /> <BR />I am trying to use the command line functionality of Fortran to build DLL's. <BR /> <BR />Using a VB front end the user selects the files they want to include in the DLL and the app creates a one line DF command through which the compiling and linking of the modules is executed. <BR /> <BR />I can get the whole process to work for upto 150 modules but, some of these DLLs need to include over 500 different files !!!! <BR /> <BR />I'm pretty sure that the line length is limited to a magic number as each one of the modules requires the full path but there is nothing in the help files to say what it is ... <BR /> <BR />alternatively if somebody could suggest a way that would work for 500+ modules that would be great .... ie should I be compiling all the modules and then linking the in stages to the DLL !?!?!? <BR /> <BR />Thanks. Thu, 03 May 2001 00:18:25 GMT Intel_C_Intel 2001-05-03T00:18:25Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Building-DLLs-from-the-command-line/m-p/949844#M19221 Hi, <BR /> <BR />I am trying to use the command line functionality of Fortran to build DLL's. <BR /> <BR />Using a VB front end the user selects the files they want to include in the DLL and the app creates a one line DF command through which the compiling and linking of the modules is executed. <BR /> <BR />I can get the whole process to work for upto 150 modules but, some of these DLLs need to include over 500 different files !!!! <BR /> <BR />I'm pretty sure that the line length is limited to a magic number as each one of the modules requires the full path but there is nothing in the help files to say what it is ... <BR /> <BR />alternatively if somebody could suggest a way that would work for 500+ modules that would be great .... ie should I be compiling all the modules and then linking the in stages to the DLL !?!?!? <BR /> <BR />Thanks. Thu, 03 May 2001 00:18:25 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Building-DLLs-from-the-command-line/m-p/949844#M19221 Intel_C_Intel 2001-05-03T00:18:25Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Building-DLLs-from-the-command-line/m-p/949845#M19222 From your VB front-end, write out a makefile and invoke nmake to build the DLL. Using nmake, you can also compile only the source files changed from last built. <BR /> <BR />Just a thought. <BR />Greg Chien <BR /><A href="http://protodesign-inc.com" target="_blank">http://protodesign-inc.com</A> Fri, 04 May 2001 00:20:16 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Building-DLLs-from-the-command-line/m-p/949845#M19222 gchien 2001-05-04T00:20:16Z