Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM> wrote:
> > I am not sure that this is completely relevant, but it seems to me what
> > you are looking for is not an interactive environment but rather a
> > scripting language or build tool.
>
> You are right.  We are working on something like that now, but it's not
> ready for general release.  It will be something that we can freely give
> to customers who want to build our code themselves, without being a major
> intrusion on their machine (like all the Java stuff you mentioned).  It
> will also be layered on our OS portability interface and can therefore
> make use of our special file name handling.
>
> Our stuff used to all be built from the Apollo DSEE environment.  The BAT
> files on NT are just an interim stopgap.

In the meantime, just use Gnu make, available everywhere for all platforms
and just a single executable file. For example, the following Makefile
builds Olin's hal project. Although it ignores the "special file name
handling" (by not using Olin's asm/lib/link wrappers), doesn't put the
derived files in a separate directory and does not go to the trouble of
creating a library for each project, it could easily be extended to do all
of these things.

-- Dave Tweed

==========================================================================
# Embed/src/hal/Makefile

# Embed, Inc. tools

PREPIC = ../../com/prepic

# Microchip tools

ASM = "c:/Program Files/MPLAB/MPASMWIN"
LINK = "c:/Program Files/MPLAB/MPLINK" /k "../pic"

# Other tools

RM = del

HAL_OBJS = hal_strt.o hal_ad.o hal_eyes.o hal_init.o hal_intr.o hal_main.o \
 hal_port.o hal_rand.o hal_soun.o hal_s09.o hal_s16.o hal_s22.o hal_s35.o \
 owl.o howl.o pop.o pop2.o

# Embed's preprocessor

%.asm: %.aspic
        $(PREPIC) $< $@

%.inc: %.ins.aspic
        $(PREPIC) $< $@

# Assemble

%.o: %.asm
        $(ASM) /c- /q /o $@ $<

# Link

hal.hex: $(HAL_OBJS)
        echo "FILES $(HAL_OBJS)" >temp.lkr
        $(LINK) p16f876m.lkr temp.lkr /m hal.map /o $@

# Cleanup

clean:
        $(RM) *.ERR
        $(RM) *.LST
        $(RM) temp.lkr

realclean: clean
        $(RM) *.asm
        $(RM) *.inc
        $(RM) *.O
        $(RM) *.map
        $(RM) *.cod
        $(RM) *.hex

# Additional source dependencies

hal_ad.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

hal_eyes.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

hal_init.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

hal_intr.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

hal_main.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

hal_port.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

hal_rand.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

hal_s09.o: hallib.inc

hal_s16.o: hallib.inc

hal_s22.o: hallib.inc

hal_s35.o: hallib.inc

hal_soun.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

hal_strt.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

howl.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

owl.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

pop.o: hal.inc hallib.inc

pop2.o: hal.inc hallib.inc
==========================================================================

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