viewing the details of gcc invocation

[mahaju]

Hello everyone
I was finally able to get a static library built from libtommath and when I build the static library project, I get this message in the build log

Code

-------------- Build: Debug in tommath ---------------

Compiling: bn_error.c
Compiling: bn_fast_mp_invmod.c
Compiling: bn_fast_mp_montgomery_reduce.c
Compiling: bn_fast_s_mp_mul_digs.c
Compiling: bn_fast_s_mp_mul_high_digs.c
Compiling: bn_fast_s_mp_sqr.c
Compiling: bn_mp_2expt.c
Compiling: bn_mp_abs.c
Compiling: bn_mp_add.c
Compiling: bn_mp_add_d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_addmod.c
Compiling: bn_mp_and.c
Compiling: bn_mp_clamp.c
Compiling: bn_mp_clear.c
Compiling: bn_mp_clear_multi.c
Compiling: bn_mp_cmp.c
Compiling: bn_mp_cmp_d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_cmp_mag.c
Compiling: bn_mp_cnt_lsb.c
Compiling: bn_mp_copy.c
Compiling: bn_mp_count_bits.c
Compiling: bn_mp_div.c
Compiling: bn_mp_div_2.c
Compiling: bn_mp_div_2d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_div_3.c
Compiling: bn_mp_div_d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_dr_is_modulus.c
Compiling: bn_mp_dr_reduce.c
Compiling: bn_mp_dr_setup.c
Compiling: bn_mp_exch.c
Compiling: bn_mp_expt_d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_exptmod.c
Compiling: bn_mp_exptmod_fast.c
Compiling: bn_mp_exteuclid.c
Compiling: bn_mp_fread.c
Compiling: bn_mp_fwrite.c
Compiling: bn_mp_gcd.c
Compiling: bn_mp_get_int.c
Compiling: bn_mp_grow.c
Compiling: bn_mp_init.c
Compiling: bn_mp_init_copy.c
Compiling: bn_mp_init_multi.c
Compiling: bn_mp_init_set.c
Compiling: bn_mp_init_set_int.c
Compiling: bn_mp_init_size.c
Compiling: bn_mp_invmod.c
Compiling: bn_mp_invmod_slow.c
Compiling: bn_mp_is_square.c
Compiling: bn_mp_jacobi.c
Compiling: bn_mp_karatsuba_mul.c
Compiling: bn_mp_karatsuba_sqr.c
Compiling: bn_mp_lcm.c
Compiling: bn_mp_lshd.c
Compiling: bn_mp_mod.c
Compiling: bn_mp_mod_2d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_mod_d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_montgomery_calc_normalization.c
Compiling: bn_mp_montgomery_reduce.c
Compiling: bn_mp_montgomery_setup.c
Compiling: bn_mp_mul.c
Compiling: bn_mp_mul_2.c
Compiling: bn_mp_mul_2d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_mul_d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_mulmod.c
Compiling: bn_mp_n_root.c
Compiling: bn_mp_neg.c
Compiling: bn_mp_or.c
Compiling: bn_mp_prime_fermat.c
Compiling: bn_mp_prime_is_divisible.c
Compiling: bn_mp_prime_is_prime.c
Compiling: bn_mp_prime_miller_rabin.c
Compiling: bn_mp_prime_next_prime.c
Compiling: bn_mp_prime_rabin_miller_trials.c
Compiling: bn_mp_prime_random_ex.c
Compiling: bn_mp_radix_size.c
Compiling: bn_mp_radix_smap.c
Compiling: bn_mp_rand.c
Compiling: bn_mp_read_radix.c
Compiling: bn_mp_read_signed_bin.c
Compiling: bn_mp_read_unsigned_bin.c
Compiling: bn_mp_reduce.c
Compiling: bn_mp_reduce_2k.c
Compiling: bn_mp_reduce_2k_l.c
Compiling: bn_mp_reduce_2k_setup.c
Compiling: bn_mp_reduce_2k_setup_l.c
Compiling: bn_mp_reduce_is_2k.c
Compiling: bn_mp_reduce_is_2k_l.c
Compiling: bn_mp_reduce_setup.c
Compiling: bn_mp_rshd.c
Compiling: bn_mp_set.c
Compiling: bn_mp_set_int.c
Compiling: bn_mp_shrink.c
Compiling: bn_mp_signed_bin_size.c
Compiling: bn_mp_sqr.c
Compiling: bn_mp_sqrmod.c
Compiling: bn_mp_sqrt.c
Compiling: bn_mp_sub.c
Compiling: bn_mp_sub_d.c
Compiling: bn_mp_submod.c
Compiling: bn_mp_to_signed_bin.c
Compiling: bn_mp_to_signed_bin_n.c
Compiling: bn_mp_to_unsigned_bin.c
Compiling: bn_mp_to_unsigned_bin_n.c
Compiling: bn_mp_toom_mul.c
Compiling: bn_mp_toom_sqr.c
Compiling: bn_mp_toradix.c
Compiling: bn_mp_toradix_n.c
Compiling: bn_mp_unsigned_bin_size.c
Compiling: bn_mp_xor.c
Compiling: bn_mp_zero.c
Compiling: bn_prime_tab.c
Compiling: bn_reverse.c
Compiling: bn_s_mp_add.c
Compiling: bn_s_mp_exptmod.c
Compiling: bn_s_mp_mul_digs.c
Compiling: bn_s_mp_mul_high_digs.c
Compiling: bn_s_mp_sqr.c
Compiling: bn_s_mp_sub.c
Compiling: bncore.c
Linking static library: libtommath.a
ar.exe: creating libtommath.a
Output size is 648.07 KB
Process terminated with status 0 (0 minutes, 6 seconds)
0 errors, 0 warnings

my main question is with the
Linking static library: libtommath.a
ar.exe: creating libtommath.a part

Is it possible to see the command line version of this process, ie, what command codeblocks is actually invoking and with what parameters?
I can see that codeblocks creates a .o file of the individual .c files which is a good thing, however doing that through the command line individually will be very tedious
so trying to build the whole thing through command line will be very difficult for me and if I use codeblocks, it executes the linking command and the ar.exe command by itself and I have no idea what parameter codeblocks invoked
Is there any way to view this in more detail in codeblocks?
Thank you

And a Happy New Year 2012 to everyone at the codeblocks forum

[ptDev]

The option is available in the "Compiler and debugger settings" dialog: go to the "Global compiler settings" category, and to the "Other settings" tab.
You should see a "Compiler logging" dropdown, where you can select "Full command line".

[mahaju]

Thank you very much
But now that I see the full command line it's confusing me even more
I always thought codeblocks used gcc for compiling because that's how I do it through command line
But now I see that it is invoking mingw32-gcc.exe and mingw32-g++.exe
Furthermore, I see that mingw32-g++.exe is using this path and file as it's parameter, and as far as I know I have not associated this path with my current project at all D:\CB_Files\C_scratchpad\static_lib_test\using_lib\libmean.lib (however my current project is within a directory tree in D:\CB_Files\C_scratchpad\)
is mingw32-gcc.exe same as gcc.exe ?
Where can I find out more about these things?
Thanks

[oBFusCATed]

Have you tried here: http://mingw.org/ ?

Have you checked if there is something mentioned in the Settings -> Compiler -> GCC -> Linker about libmean.lib ?

[mahaju]

Oh I see now
I had set the correct library path in the project's build setting, but that path had been appended in the global compiler setting in the past
Thank you very much for pointing that out