I recently downloaded the Code::Blocks IDE and set out to write some command line utilities for personal use.
I'm running Windows 7 and coding in regular old C.
I wrote a program to fix line terminators and trim trailing blanks in text files, for example.
I implemented wild-card file searching in the program, then found that it was never executed and wasn't needed, that there is a new Setargv function that expands wildcards to separate argv's automatically. Doh. Oh well, it's been over 30 years since I did any real programming and I guess I should expect changes. This seems convenient for most purposes, and allowed me to delete a few lines from my program.
However, the next thing I want to write needs to accept arguments including asterisks and question marks without having them expanded before I see them. A little googling suggests that what I need is to link my program with an older less powerful setargv function.
I have no idea at all how to tell Code::Blocks to do that. Can someone point me in the right direction?
All this new-fangled IDE stuff is lovely when it does what you want it to, which seems to be the case much of the time. But it can be bewildering to a fuzzy-headed old timer like me when I want to deviate from the defaults. As of now, I have only the vaguest of ideas what a "project" really is, or what it means when it talks about "the current view" and suchlike.
I can't seem to find any linking options. And if I found them I'm not sure what to set them to. Help?
