I'm officially an idiot

Well.....I never read the Borland readme! This may be the root of my Borland problems......I did step one, can anyone explain step 2? Thanks!

Code:

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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"

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My compilers BIN path is D:\Compilers\Borland\Bin .

Did you read this ?

Error - image here:
BTW - the bcc32.cfg and ilink32.cfg files are in the bin directory!

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Get to a command prompt, and type ilink32.exe and see if it runs. If not, its probably not in your PATH, which is something you should have setup as well. Type this to see your path list:

>echo %PATH%

Hi

Just a question here why did you choose the borland compiler

or do all the others lack certain features.

I use Dev C++ at the moment but ive never bothered to find out how good or usefull this compiler is i just took it for granted that it was similar to all the others.

didnt mean to go off topic , but while im here ??
might as well ask

Here's my classpath and what happens when I run ilink32 with no arguments. Still no compilation done, same error.

I have these:

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***SEE ATTACHMENT FOR OTHER PIC***

and now I get the error you see in the command prompt in the Att.Net image.

BTW - the attachment is what I get when I run ilink32.exe and my classpath
BTW - my Bin dir is D:\Compilers\Borland\Bin\

From the other thread:

Quote:

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* If Windows 95/98:
Navigate to the root in order to modify the PATH reference in the autoexec.bat file.
3. Type "cd" [Enter]
4. Type "edit autoexec.bat" [Enter]
5. Insert a line and type "PATH=C:\BORLAND\BCC55\BIN;%PATH%"
6. Save the changes (Alt-F then hit S).
7. Exit edit. (Alt+F then press X).

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Note the PATH variable is set to the BIN directory.
Read this.

Thank you all, it works now :D :D :D :D :D !