Subj : Re: resource files
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date : Mon Nov 22 2004 03:15 pm


Just for the heck of it, here is a real, working make 
file from a project I did. 

It allows you to specify -DNODEBUG and/or -DDYNAMIC on 
the command line to make.exe.  That means it can be used 
to build the program as any of static or dynamic linked, 
with or without debuging info.  It is set up to default
to static linked with debug info enabled.

It creates a response file - the 'copy' command copies 
everything between the '|' in '&&|' and the next '|' into 
the response file.  That response file is then shown to 
the user and fed to the linker.  By doing it that way
1-You still see the full linker command, something that 
doesn't happen if that style of indirection is done in 
the normal fashion
2-no matter how many object files and libraries you used 
there is no issue of the command getting too long for the 
command line (a serious issue on Win95/98/ME). 

It also tells you what the options were in what it built, 
uses precompiled header files and shows you the size of 
the executable it creates. 

..  Ed

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..autodepend

!ifdef NODEBUG
DBG=
MSG1=Debug Off
!else
DBG=/v
MSG1=Debug On
!endif

!ifdef DYNAMIC
LIBS=import32 cw32i
CTARGTYPE=-WR
MSG2=Dynamic Linked
!else
LIBS=import32 cw32
CTARGTYPE=-W
MSG2=Static Linked
!endif

OBJS=utils.obj plist12.obj classes.obj

plist12.exe : $(OBJS) plist.res
  copy &&|
/Tpe/aa/x/c$(DBG) c0w32 $(OBJS),plist12,,import32 \
cw32,,plist.res
| plist12.rsp
  @echo ilink32
  @type plist12.rsp
  @ilink32 @plist12.rsp
  @del plist12.rsp>nul
  @echo ::: $(MSG1)
  @echo ::: $(MSG2)
  @dir plist12.exe

plist.res : plist.rc plist.rh plist.ico
  brcc32 plist

..cpp.obj :
  bcc32 -c $(CTARGTYPE) -H="plist2.csm" $(DBG) { $< }
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>Jack Sawatzky wrote:
>Thanks Ed.  The make file did the trick! 
>Also, I like the idea of make files, now that have 
>one that works.
>Thanks again.

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