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Andrada Terenche
Andrada Terenche
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Posted by Andrada Terenche
Andrada Terenche
1,103 Points

mcs -out:TreehouseDefense.exe *.cs

I don't quite understand. After he removes Game.exe, does he rename anything? And why type mcs -out:TreehouseDefense.exe *.cs while in the C# Basics it was only mcs TreehouseDefense.cs?

1 Answer

Jon Wood
Jon Wood
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Jon Wood
Jon Wood
9,884 Points

It's doing different things.

mcs -out:TreehouseDefense.exe *.cs says to take all files that end with .cs and compile them into a file called TreehouseDefense.exe. If he didn't specify the -out it would just name as the first file it finds alphabetically.

mcs TreehouseDefense.cs is just compiling one file called TreehouseDefense.cs. Since it's the only file being compiled it will name the exe file the same as the cs file - TreehouseDefense.exe.

Charlie Harcourt
Charlie Harcourt
8,046 Points

So if doing -out:TreehouseDefense.exe takes all files, why is he doing " *.cs"? what is that being used for?

thanks