[fpc-pascal] Handling with sources and exebutables with different names

[Sven Barth]

On 17.05.2012 14:09, luciano de souza wrote:
> hello all,
>
> I am compiling CGI modules with Freepascal in commandline mode. if I do:
>
> fpc test.pas
>
> the result is "test.exe". But the source name needs to be different
> from the executable name. For this reason:
>
> fpc test.pas -oindex.cgi
>
> This command should result in index.cgi, placed on the current folder.
> However, this command is ignore and I obtain "test.exe" again.
>
> My question is: how to produce a executable, compiling from the
> commandline in FPC 2.6.0, with a different name of its source?

The above DOES work. Maybe your shell bites you and you need to qoute 
the option ( => "-oindex.cgi"). Did the compiler write something like 
the following?

Warning: Only one source file supported, changing source file to compile 
from ".cgi" into "test.pas"


Regards,
Sven