wrong location of build artefact when building project

[BluBloos]

I downloaded and unzipped to get a folder containing c3c.exe. I navigated cmd.exe to the folder. I ran: c3c init project. I ran: c3c compile project. main.exe was created in the same folder level as c3c.exe, whereas I expected main.exe to be created within the build folder belonging to the project.

[lerno]

Two things:

1. If you use c3c compile project it is actually saying "compile all the source files in the 'project' folder'. Use c3c build instead.
2. If you build a project, then the .exe will end up in the same directory as the project.json by default. This behaviour can be overridden.
3. The build folder is intended for intermediate build artifacts.

[BluBloos]

Thanks for the response!

I misunderstood the purpose of the build folder because I skimmed https://c3-lang.org/guide/my-first-project/ and assumed the build folder is not only where intermediate build artifacts go but all artifacts.

As a first-time user, I think it's confusing that there are two commands compile and build. If I were to suggest a change, it would be to have just one command compile. The compile command would build all source files in a folder unless it recognizes that the folder is a project, in which case it builds the project. That being said, maybe this is another case of my lack of understanding for why there are two commands.

[lerno]

They act quite differently. build takes a single "target" argument, which is what target in the project.json file one wishes to compile for, e.g. c3c build mygame-testversion, whereas compile is to just straight go and compile individual files, without a project, e.g. c3c compile foo.c3 bar.c3 baz.c3

[lerno]

There is also compile-run (compile files and run them), and run (build the target and run it)

[lerno]

Can I close this?