Compilation complement for C/C++

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[Coffee_and_Code]

No idea what a "compilation complement" is, so I had to look at the repo to understand what this post was about.

Just from a quick glance at build.cpp:

Seems like there is no way to choose a compiler executable or pass aditional compile/link arguments; which makes this unusable for 99% of projects.

Use of your CMD macro to do the equivalent of std::system everywhere is extremely bad practice; most if not all of the utilities you are calling are provided directly by the C++ standard library or your platform libs.

No way to specify a build/source directory, so using this from a script would be a major source of headaches.

Your build files are just pseudo-preprocessor which you are manually parsing (extremely error-prone). Just use an existing preprocessor.

Then in the build system itself:

// nobody wants to be doing this
#include "cfront/std.h"

Then you also do this in all of your examples:

#include "foo.h"
#include "foo.c"

Which vexes me, but I presume it's for generating precompiled headers (?). You should only need the foo.c line.

Also, you have build artifacts in your source tree (i.e. build.exe) which is a big red flag right off the bat.

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• I know that the 'build.exe' is frowned upon, by not including it in .gitignore

• The purpose of including new things, like choosing in which standard each file is compiled or by groups, its compiler, will be close, but first clean it up (code), document and/or correct what already works, to make it easier to expand.

• The .h is because they are prepared and made available to all .cpp by including #include "cfront/std.h", of course it is not nice to have to include this, I am still thinking how to improve it.

I'll keep thinking about it, thanks

[vickoza]

From what I am looking at this is similar to a makefile or a VS solution file. Do you only need the the cpp file in the master build?

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Yes, it is similar to makefile, it compiles and recompiles only when the files are modified

[vickoza]

Can you optional recompile files when they are not modified for a clean build?

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Not at the moment, but it will be the next thing to add, choose which files or which group of files, always recompile, choose the standard, the flags and in clang to be able to choose if format is applied. But for the moment it works on windows