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Visual Studio 2005
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Building a C/C++ Program
C/C++ Building Reference
Linking
Linker Options
Compiler-Controlled LINK Options
LINK Input Files
LINK Output
Reserved Words
@ (Specify a Linker Response File)
/ALIGN (Section Alignment)
/ALLOWBIND (Prevent DLL Binding)
/ALLOWISOLATION (Manifest Lookup)
/ASSEMBLYDEBUG (Add DebuggableAttribute)
/ASSEMBLYLINKRESOURCE (Link to .NET Framework Resource)
/ASSEMBLYMODULE (Add a MSIL Module to the Assembly)
/ASSEMBLYRESOURCE (Embed a Managed Resource)
/BASE (Base Address)
/CLRIMAGETYPE (Specify Type of CLR Image)
/CLRUNMANAGEDCODECHECK (Add SupressUnmanagedCodeSecurityAttribute)
/CLRSUPPORTLASTERROR (Preserve Last Error Code for PInvoke Calls)
/CLRTHREADATTRIBUTE (Set CLR Thread Attribute)
/DEBUG (Generate Debug Info)
/DEF (Specify Module-Definition File)
/DEFAULTLIB (Specify Default Library)
/DELAY (Delay Load Import Settings)
/DELAYLOAD (Delay Load Import)
/DELAYSIGN (Partially Sign an Assembly)
/DLL (Build a DLL)
/DRIVER (Windows NT Kernel Mode Driver)
/ENTRY (Entry-Point Symbol)
/ERRORREPORT (Report Internal Linker Errors)
/EXPORT (Exports a Function)
/FIXED (Fixed Base Address)
/FORCE (Force File Output)
/FUNCTIONPADMIN (Create Hotpatchable Image)
/HEAP (Set Heap Size)
/IDLOUT (Name MIDL Output Files)
/IGNOREIDL (Don't Process Attributes into MIDL)
/IMPLIB (Name Import Library)
/INCLUDE (Force Symbol References)
/INCREMENTAL (Link Incrementally)
/KEYCONTAINER (Specify a Key Container to Sign an Assembly)
/KEYFILE (Specify Key or Key Pair to Sign an Assembly)
/LARGEADDRESSAWARE (Handle Large Addresses)
/LIBPATH (Additional Libpath)
/LTCG (Link-time Code Generation)
/MACHINE (Specify Target Platform)
/MANIFEST (Create Side-by-Side Assembly Manifest)
/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY (Specify Manifest Dependencies)
/MANIFESTFILE (Name Manifest File)
/MAP (Generate Mapfile)
/MAPINFO (Include Information in Mapfile)
/MERGE (Combine Sections)
/MIDL (Specify MIDL Command Line Options)
/NOASSEMBLY (Create a MSIL Module)
/NODEFAULTLIB (Ignore Libraries)
/NOENTRY (No Entry Point)
/NOLOGO (Suppress Startup Banner)
/NXCOMPAT (Compatible with Data Execution Prevention)
/OPT (Optimizations)
/ORDER (Put Functions in Order)
/OUT (Output File Name)
/PDB (Use Program Database)
/PDBSTRIPPED (Strip Private Symbols)
/PGD (Specify Database for Profile-Guided Optimizations)
/PROFILE (Performance Tools Profiler)
/RELEASE (Set the Checksum)
/SAFESEH (Image has Safe Exception Handlers)
/SECTION (Specify Section Attributes)
/STACK (Stack Allocations)
/STUB (MS-DOS Stub File Name)
/SUBSYSTEM (Specify Subsystem)
/SWAPRUN (Load Linker Output to Swap File)
/TLBID (Specify Resource ID for TypeLib)
/TLBOUT (Name .TLB File)
/TSAWARE (Create Terminal Server Aware Application)
/VERBOSE (Print Progress Messages)
/VERSION (Version Information)
/WX (Treat Linker Warnings as Errors)
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/PROFILE (Performance Tools Profiler)

Visual Studio 2005

Produces an output file that can be used with the Performance Tools profiler.

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/PROFILE

/PROFILE implies the following linker options:

/PROFILE causes the linker to generate a relocation section in the program image. A relocation section allows the profiler to transform the program image to get profile data.

/PROFILE is only available only in Enterprise (team development) versions. For more information on PREfast, see Code Analysis for C/C++ Overview.

To set this linker option in the Visual Studio development environment

  1. Open the project's Property Pages dialog box. For details, see How to: Open Project Property Pages.

  2. Expand the Configuration Properties node.

  3. Expand the Linker node.

  4. Select the Advanced property page.

  5. Modify the Profile property.

To set this linker option programmatically

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