Compiler Options

Critical Mass Modula-3 allows the following set of options at the command line:

modes: (default: -build)

-build compile and link
-ship  install package
-clean delete derived files
-find  locate source files
-depend  output package dependencies

compile options: (default: -g -w1)

-g produce symbol table information for debugger
-O optimize code
-A disable code generation for assertions
-once don't recompile to improve opaque object code
-w0 .. -w3 limit compiler warning messages
-Z generate coverage analysis code
-profile generate profiling code

program and library options: (default: -o prog)

-c compile only, produce no program or library
-a somelib build library somelib
-o someprog build program someprog
-skiplink skip the final link step

messages: (default: -why)

-silent produce no diagnostic output
-why explain why code is being recompiled
-commands list system commands as they are performed
-verbose list internal steps as they are performed
-debug dump internal debugging information

information and help:

-help print this help message
-? print this help message
-version print the version number header
-config print the version number header

misc:

-keep preserve intermediate and temporary files
-times produce a dump of elapsed times
-override include the ".m3overrides" file
-x include the ".m3overrides" file
-Dsymbol define symbol with the value TRUE
-Dsym=val define sym with the value val
-console produce a Windows CONSOLE subsystem program
-gui produce a Windows GUI subsystem program
-windows produce a Windows GUI subsystem program