At present, if you say
flx fred
flx --static fred
you will get a DLL/executable called fred.dll fred.exe in the directory
containing the Felix file "fred".
There is a bug: if fred.dll/exe exists it is run immediately, but without
properly setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
however there's a problem: if you run
flx /usr/local/lib/felix/felix-latest/share/src/tools/webserver
it will fail because it cannot write "webserver" into the shared
tools directory. Felix caches the intermediate files in
$HOME/.felix/cache/(text/binary)
but not the final product. You can of course name the output location
flx -ox $HOME/bin/webserver.exe .....
to work around this, but it destroys the convenient fiction Felix is
a scripting language and can just "run script" with caching used to
optimise performance (but not otherwise interfere with semantics).
Note the option
flx --output_dir= ...
can be used to change the C++ output cache location, and the whole
cache can be changed by
flx --cache_dir
but since a final product is not cached, this has no effect.
SO ... I propose to change it so by default EVERYTHING is cached,
including final executables. So by default running flx "like a scripting
language" will not pollute any of the file system except the $HOME/.felix/cache.
I will also add
-od
flags: the -ox means "add the extension automatically"
and -od means "put the product in the named directory
with the default name and extension". So you can do
flx -od $HOME/bin long-path/websever.flx
and that will "cache" the webserver in you home "bin"
directory as "webserver" (i.e. without the "long-path").
[This is useful in scripts looping through program names,
saves repeating the program name]
--
john skaller
skal...@users.sourceforge.net
http://felix-lang.org
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