Using RC (The RC Command Line)
To start RC, use the RC command.
Syntax
RC [options] script-file
The script-file parameter specifies the name of the resource-definition file that contains the names, types, filenames, and descriptions of the resources to be compiled. The options parameter can be one or more of the command-line options described in Parameters.
Parameters
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/?
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Displays a list of RC command-line options.
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/d
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Defines a symbol for the preprocessor that you can test with the #ifdef directive.
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/foresname
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Uses resname for the name of the .RES file.
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/h
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Displays a list of RC command-line options.
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/i
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Searches the specified directory before searching the directories specified by the INCLUDE environment variable.
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/lcodepage
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Specifies default language for compilation. For example, -l409 is equivalent to including the following statement at the top of the resource script file:
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
Alternatively, you use #pragma code_page(409) in the .RC file.
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/n
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Null terminates all strings in the string table.
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/r
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Ignored. Provided for compatibility with existing makefiles.
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/u
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Undefines a symbol for the preprocessor.
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/v
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Displays messages that report on the progress of the compiler.
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/x
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Prevents RC from checking the INCLUDE environment variable when searching for header files or resource files.
Remarks
Options are not case sensitive, and a hyphen (-) can be used in place of a slash mark (/). You can combine single-letter options if they do not require any additional parameters. For example, the following two commands are equivalent:
rc /V /X SAMPLE.RC
rc -vx sample.rc
For examples using RC, see the following topics: