Re: [ft-devel] Very very old CodeWarrior C compiler cannot parse directory-structured include files

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:52 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi CodeWarrior users,
>
> Recently I've got still-sealed "CodeWarrior Gold 10"
> which was released on 1994, and tried to build FreeType2
> by this very very old CW.
>
> I found following difficulties:
>
> A) C preprocessor in legacy CW does not allow
>   Unix-like pathname in "#include" directive.
>   For example,
>
>        #include <freetype/config/ftconfig.h>
>
>   is refused. C preprocessor in legacy MPW
>   had already supported Unix-like pathname,
>   but legacy Metrowerks C preprocessor did not.
>
> B) Legacy CW does not provide the interface to be
>   used as gcc's "-Dxxx" (latest CW has such).
>   All cpp definitions should be explicitly
>   written in the header file.
>
> The difficulty A is very serious, I think it's hard
> to build FreeType2 without modification of header
> files. In my experiment, I made small Makefile to
> convert the pathname of header files to flat structure,
> aslike:
>
> include/freetype/freetype.h             -> freetype_freetype.h
> include/freetype/config/ftconfig.h      -> config_ftconfig.h
> include/freetype/internal/autohint.h    -> internal_autohint.h
> include/freetype/internal/services/svbdf.h
>                                        -> services_svbdf.h
>
> # HFS has no 8.3 pathname restriction, but classic MacOS cannot
> # recognize the long file name in HFS+. So strictly expanded
> # pathname like "freetype_internal_services_svbdf.h" cannot be
> # recognized correctly by classic MacOS application.
>
> Also the definition of pathnames like:
>
>        #define FT_CONFIG_STANDARD_LIBRARY_H  <config/ftstdlib.h>
>
> should be replaced by flatten pathname:
>
>        #define FT_CONFIG_STANDARD_LIBRARY_H  <config_ftstdlib.h>
>
> The attached Makefile is a sample to do such conversion.
>
> It makes flat-structured header files in builds/mac/cwide17/.
> In addition, it inserts extra macros to ft2build.h.
>
> Yet I'm not sure if I should distribute binary CW project file,
> but the flat-structured header files are essential for the
> building by legacy CW. So I will add builds/mac/Makefile to
> automate the preparation before running CW itself.
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
> ================================================================
> .PHONY: make_flat_headers fix_ft2build_h
>
> all: clean make_flat_headers fix_ft2build_h
>
> make_flat_headers:
>        cd include && \
>        for f in `find [a-z]* -name '*.h'` ; \
>        do \
>                g=`echo $$f | tr '/' '_'` ; \
>                g=`echo $$g | sed 's/freetype_internal_services_/services_/'` 
> ; \
>                g=`echo $$g | sed 's/freetype_internal_/internal_/'` ; \
>                g=`echo $$g | sed 's/freetype_config_/config_/'` ; \
>                echo Generate ../builds/mac/cwide17/$$g ; \
>                sed -e 
> '/^#define.*FT_.*_H.*<.*\.h>/s:/:_:g;/^#include.*<.*>/s:/:_:g' \
>                    -e 's:freetype_internal_services_:services_:g' \
>                    -e 's:freetype_internal_:internal_:g' \
>                    -e 's:freetype_config_:config_:g' \
>                        < $$f > ../builds/mac/cwide17/$$g ; \
>                /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a l -c "MPS " -t TEXT 
> ../builds/mac/cwide17/$$g ; \
>        done
>
> fix_ft2build_h:
>        ( echo '#define HAVE_FSSPEC 1' ; \
>          echo '#define HAVE_FSREF 0' ; \
>          echo '#define HAVE_QUICKDRAW_TOOLBOX 1' ; \
>          echo '#define HAVE_QUICKDRAW_CARBON 0' ; \
>          echo '#define HAVE_ATS 0' ; \
>          echo '#define FT2_BUILD_LIBRARY' ; \
>          echo '#define FT_CONFIG_CONFIG_H  <config_ftconfig.h>' ; \
>          echo '#define FT_CONFIG_MODULES_H <config_ftmodule.h>' ) | \
>        awk '{printf("#undef %s\n", $$2);print}' > 
> builds/mac/cwide17/ft2build.in
>        cat builds/mac/cwide17/ft2build.h >> builds/mac/cwide17/ft2build.in
>        mv builds/mac/cwide17/ft2build.in builds/mac/cwide17/ft2build.h
>        /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a l -c "MPS " -t TEXT 
> builds/mac/cwide17/ft2build.h
>
> clean:
>        rm -f builds/mac/cwide17/*.h
>
> resource:
>        find . -name '*.[ch]' -exec /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a l -c "MPS " -t 
> TEXT \{\} \;
>
>
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Am i the only one who wonders why a 14 year old compiler is even relevant today?

Maarten.