Please recommend a reference text

[ivfuser]

Is there a thorough, non-HTML-ified reference for the CL, LIB and LINK command-line build tools? Wading through MSDN online, I find myself printing lots of pages and trying to glue them together into some semblance of order. I really want a dead-tree edition.

Thanks for your help.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Well, there's always the old Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide in "dead tree" form, published by Digital Press. The chapter on "Using Visual Fortran Tools" covers the LIB and LINK commands. You can get this in PDF here.

For the ifort command, all of the options are listed in one "chapter" in the 9.0 docs, so it shouldn't be too hard to print.

[ivfuser]

Steve,

You know, I forgot about the old DEC manuals. The great news is, I still have three complete sets of actual manuals within arms' reach. I'm embarrassed that I didn't think to look there first. I suppose they be a bit dated by now, but they're probably still pretty complete at least for IA32.

Now for a compliment: You'll notice that I did not ask about a reference for ifort. I was apprehensive about IVF when I learned that it does not ship with a dead tree. But the online docs are very good and reasonably well cross-referenced. Intel obviously put a lot of work into making the docs useful.

Thanks.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Thanks for the kind words. I misinterpreted your reference to CL - that would be for the MSVC compiler. Yes, we've put a lot of work into the documentation, and more improvements are coming.