On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:29:10 +0100 David Fiddes D.J.Fiddes@hw.ac.uk wrote:
I am writing a shell for GPC - "GPCC.PAS" (in Borland Pascal). All that
it
does is to parse the command line, parse the source file to see whether it is a unit/module or a program (and pass the necessary "-o" or "-c" switch accordingly, read a file called "GPCC.CFG", add any switches
found
in it to the list of parameters obtained from the command line, and then, run "GPC" with the whole list of parameters.
I thought that gpc was similar to gcc(I'm not that familiar with gpc -- it won't build with the cygnus source tree I use)..isn't gpc.exe like gcc.exe in that it's just a shell for ccp.exe and cc1.exe, as.exe, ld.exe ,etc,etc.
I presume that GPC is a shell to GPC1, or GPC-CPP, or, to both of them. I am operating from the point of view of someone from a BP background, who does not understand MAKE files or such, but who is comfortable with the idea of a .CFG file that contains all the parameters you wish to always pass (splitting infinitives here?) to a command line compiler. GPCC (the name is insignificant - perhaps it should be GPCS - for "GPC shell") simply provides this facility. It also served the purpose of presenting me with an opportunity to write GPC implementations of many Borland Pascal runtime library functions. This should increase GPC's "Borland" compatibility.
It would be just as easy to write a whole new gnubpc.exe shell...? It would be cleaner perhaps...
This is really what I am trying to do - but I don't want to make it just a Borland extension shell, so it is just a program that reads a file, parses the command line, and sends everything to GPC.EXE. The implementations of Borland RTL functions are in UNITs, which will be usable by everybody (I hope). Presumably, somebody someday will convert the UNITs to EP modules.
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