What platform are you on?  Maple might be trying to write into a directory where indeed you don't have write access to, but the directories used rather depend on the platform (and you user priviledges).

Question:  Does the directory that you are trying to write to have spaces in the name?  If so, first create a directory without spaces in the name and then try writing to it from the Watcom compiler.  In previous versions, the Watcom compiler had issues with spaces in directory names.

Regards,
Georgios Kokovidis
Dräger Medical

Yes the compiler is writing to directory "Maple 12" wich has a space.

I reinstalled Maple 12 to directory Maple12 without the spce and it corrected the problem.  The only thing is that on startup of the program, it complains that there is a security error since it can't find directory Maple 12 with the space.  I guess it likes the default.

If someone can tell me how I can force the watcom compiler to write to a specific directory which I can create myself....this would solve my problem.

Right now it defaults to the main Maple 12 directory.

thanks

One way around this is to use Microsofts Visual C++ Express Edition, which is a free download.  I start by creating a Maple file in a temp directory, say C:\temp\Maple

Then I navigate to that directory from the command line prompt of the VC++ compiler, and use command line switches to build my program.  There are examples in Maple that show how to do this.  So far I have not had any problems with it.

As Axel mentions above, I do not use spaces in any of my directory names.  I never accept the default paths given.  On all of my machines, the first thing I do is create an installation directory off of the root drive, and I install all of my programs into that directory, eliminating spaces in the file names.

Regards,
Georgios Kokovidis
Dräger Medical