Help with Borland C++ 5.5

[Magma]

For the install it says

Installing and running the Command Line Tools
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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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what does it all mean?? and can someone explain it in plain english?

[MathFan]

yeah, i also had problems understanding all that stuff in the beginning...
I don't, know about version 5.5, but here is a discription of what I did when I installed BC++ 5.1:


1. I put all the files into C:\Cpp\
2. Then I created a file called "bcc32.cfg" in C:\Cpp\bin\. Edited it with Notepad and added following two lines:

-I"C:\Cpp\include"
-L"C:\Cpp\lib"

3. Created a file called "ilink32.cfg" in the same directory, added the following line to it with Notepad:

-L"C:\Cpp\lib"

That's all.

Hope this will help

[Magma]

well y dont they just put it all in the setup file then

[Magma]

now what file opens the compiler once i made those files....

[Magma]

ok i have tryed every .exe file in the folders and not one of them works could someone help me out here?

[Hammer]

Try looking harder