how to instruct gcc/clang to output temporary files to a particular directory

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A. K. picture A. K. · Nov 11, 2012 · Viewed 12k times · Source

While using the --save-temps option to save the temporary files, gcc/clang outputs the temporary file in the same directory as the input files. Is there an option to instruct gcc to output the files to some other directory.

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When not using the --save-temps option the temporary files are created in a default directory (i.e. $TMPDIR such as /tmp) but they are deleted once the object file is created. Is there a way to instruct the compiler to keep those files instead of just deleting them ( i think that the only option is --save-temps, which has the problem stated above)

Answer

Jonathan Wakely picture Jonathan Wakely · Nov 12, 2012

If you use -save-temps=obj the temporary files are put in the same directory as the output files, so e.g.

gcc -save-temps=obj -o dir/foo.o foo.c

will create dir/foo.i

This is documented in the manual, obviously. All supported options are listed at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Option-Summary.html and that links to https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Developer-Options.html for -save-temps.

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