Thread: Can someone please help me install my new compiler??

I just downloaded the Borland C++ compiler that you can get off of their website. I don't quite understand what its telling me to do. Here's the instructions:


1. Run freecommandlinetools.exe; choose the
drive and folder into which you want to
install the free C++Builder 5 command line
tool development system.

2. From the bin directory of your installation:
a. Add "c:\Borland\Bcc55"
to the existing path
b. Create a bcc32.cfg file which will set
the compiler options for the Include
and Lib paths (-I and -L switches to
compiler) by adding these lines:
-I"c:\Borland\Bcc55\include"
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"
c. Create an ilink32.cfg file which will set
the linker option for the Lib path by
adding this line:
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"


Can someone please tell me this in English. I've already done 1 and 2a but the rest I can't figure out since it's telling me to create some configuration file or something. Oh and if its any help here are the names of the files that are already in the bin directory:


EXE files
bcc32
brc32
brcc32
coff2omf
cpp32
fconvert
grep
ilink32
impdef
implib
make
tdump
tlib
touch
trigraph

dll files
cc3250
cc3250mt
inkdfm50
rlink32
rw32core


mak files
builtins


Any help is greatly appreciated.

go into notepad. type:
-I"c:\Borland\Bcc55\include"
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"
then save this as bcc32.cfg in c:/borland/bc55/bin/
go into notepad again, and create a new file. type:
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"
then save this file as ilink32.cfg in the same place.

well I did that but now I don't know what to do. I've tried running the two but it says it can't find setup.exe and niether can I. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. oh and thanx for the reply.

Wait a sec. Does this mean that I have to type the whole file out as like a notepad file or something then it will compile it? If so then I'm going to go back to the Bloodshed one cause this is way too confusing. Anyway thanx a lot for putting up with me.