Developer Guide and Reference

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Date 10/31/2024
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object

Specifies the name for an object file.

Syntax

Linux:

None

Windows:

/object:filename

Arguments

filename

Is the name for the object file. It can be a file name or a directory name. A directory name must be followed by a backslash (\).

If a special character appears within the file name or directory name, the file name or directory name must appear within quotes. To be safe, you should consider any non-ASCII numeric character to be a special character.

Default

OFF

An object file has the same name as the name of the first source file and a file extension of .obj.

Description

This option specifies the name for an object file. It also creates an executable using that same name.

However, if you specify option /c or /compile-only, only the object file is created.

On Linux systems, this option is equivalent to specifying options -o filename -c.

IDE Equivalent

Visual Studio: Output Files > Object File Name

Alternate Options

Linux: None

Windows: /Fo

Example

The following command shows how to specify a directory:

ifx /object:directorya\ end.f

The above command produces directorya\end.obj and executable end.exe in the current directory.

If you do not add the backslash following a directory name, an executable is created. For example, the following command produces files named directorya.obj and directorya.exe:

ifx /object:directorya end.f

The following commands show how to specify a subdirectory that contains a special character:

ifx /object:"blank subdirectory"\ end.f
ifx /object:"c:\my_directory"\ end.f

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