MapInfo Pro Developers User Group

If you are using a thirdparty text editor to write MapBasic code, you probably would like to be able to call the MapBasic compiler from within this editor.

This can be done by using the command line parameters of MapBasic to either Compile or Link your source files and projects.

To Compile you need to specify the parameter -D and then the MapBasic source file or files to compile.

To Link you must specify the parameter -L and then the MapBasic Project file to link.

I would recommend in both cases also to use the -NOSPLASH parameter to avoid seeing the splash screen.

The commands can look like this:

Compile

"C:\MapInfo\MapBasic\Mapbasic.Exe" -NOSPLASH -D "MySourceCode.mb"

Link

"C:\MapInfo\MapBasic\Mapbasic.Exe" -NOSPLASH -L "MyProject.mbp"

I have included a PDF that shows how you can configure UEStudio and UltraEdit to call the MapBasic Compiler using a couple of bat files. You can also download my bat files.

Make sure to change the paths to match your system.

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Compile and Link Bat Files.zip   492 B 1 version

We are using a setup like this, so it is easy to replace the version of mapbasic compiler. MapBasic 15.2 do not take NOSPLASH parameter.

REM PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\MapInfo\MapBasic_152\MAPBASIC.EXE"

PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\MapInfo\MapBasic_100\MAPBASIC.EXE" -NOSPLASH

%PATH% -D module1.mb

%PATH% -D module2.mb

%PATH% -L application.mbp

Are you sure about the NOSPLASH for 15.2, Uffe?

I'm using this for 15.2:

"C:\MapInfo\MapBasic\15.2\Mapbasic.Exe" -NOSPLASH -D ""%1.mb""

And yes, you can compile multiple source files in one go and that's quite a lot faster than doing them one at a time.

I had never tried linked the project at the same time, too. Nice idea

NOSPLASH makes no difference in 15.2. It shows a tiny message window anyway, which is different from the splash screen in 10.0.

Have been using NotePad++ for quite a while to compile, link, and run MapBasic. I do still use original editor as well when I am compiling newer MB programs that are in UTF-8 charset (Unicode support in 15.2x) and using differing characters such as Cyrillic, Japanese, etc.

http://www.twiav.nl/php/mapbasic.php#shac

We have a batch script to compile each mb file and then link the project.

FOR %%I in (*.mb) DO (

echo Compiling: %%I 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\MapInfo\MapBasic\mapbasic.exe" -D %%I -nosplash

)

echo ----------------------

"C:\Program Files (x86)\MapInfo\MapBasic\mapbasic.exe" -L Project.mbp

It works in series, but given we have 46 modules to compile, is there a way to compile it in parallel? It can take some time for us to compile our tool.

Ashley,

You can pass multiple files to the compiler each time. That will save you quite some time.

Like:

"C:\MapInfo\MapBasic\Mapbasic.Exe" -NOSPLASH -D "ERRORLib.mb" "EXCELLib.mb" "\FILELib.mb"

I'm really bad at write DOS scripts so I'm not sure how you write this to for example send ten modules to the compiler at a time. I have hard coded it for my common libraries.