Question

I’m trying to make a program, which would run cl.exe (C/C++ compiler) and compile a C++ program. Here’s my code:

Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\ _ 
        bin\cl.exe /EHsc ""C:\myprogram.cpp"" ")

        Console.WriteLine("Compilation Succeded")
        Console.ReadLine()
    End Sub

End Module

This doesn’t compile the .cpp file. Do you have any ideas how to make this work?

EDIT: I entered “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\cl.exe” /EHsc “C:\myprogram.cpp” in CMD and it didn’t compile, but instead it threw an error ( This application has failed to start because mspdb100.dll was not found. )

EDIT: I executed my program trough ‘VS Command Prompt’ and it compiled my program (it showed that it compiled), but there’s no compiled exe and obj files.

Answer 1

Never mind, instead of using cl.exe I’m now using MSBuild. Much better.