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WHAT is winlauncher.exe
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winlauncher.exe is a small windows executable that is intended to be used by
the command line files to perform certain operations. It is not intended to
be a final user interface and that is one of the reasons why is placed under
the lib subdirectory.
See the comments in winlauncher.c file for more information.
INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPILE winlauncher
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Using Visual C++ and the command line you must set your environment
variables to point to your Visual Studio install. You can set the environment
variables by changing to the \bin subdirectory of your Visual C++ installation
and running the VCVARS32.bat batch file.
This will basically update your PATH, INCLUDE and LIB environment variables
to point to the correct paths of your Visual Studio install.
Go to the directory where the source files winlauncher.c and winlauncher.h are
and launch the following command:
> cl winlauncher.c
This will generate the binary winlauncher.exe.
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Using Visual C++ graphical interface you just must to Create a Project and add
winlauncher.c and winlauncher.h to the project. You can build winlauncher.c
and then winlauncher.exe with the commands in the menu 'Build'.
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Using gcc (for instance you can get it with the open source project MinGW -
Minimalist GNU for Windows), you must include the directory where the gcc
binaries are on your PATH environment variable.
Go to the directory where the source files winlauncher.c and winlauncher.h are
and launch the following command:
> gcc winlauncher.c -o winlauncher.exe
This will generate the binary winlauncher.exe.