On Thu, November 6, 2014 23:30, Juha Manninen wrote: > Lazarus has a GUI for all FPC options, parsed directly from "fpc -h" > and "fpc -i". > Project Options -> Compiler Options -> Other -> All Options ... . . > "fpc -h" output would be generated from the JSON data, thus it would > not require more maintenance.
If you mean that FPC itself should use a JSON file for generating the help, that doesn't sound like a good idea to me (see below). > Unfortunately this will not happen anytime soon, nobody is working on it. > Until then, small improvements in "fpc -h" output would be good. > > One more issue are the options missing from "fpc -h". > Currently I only know that -gtt, -gttt, -gtttt etc. are not mentioned, > there is only -gt, yet the extra 't's are not duplicate options but > they change the meaning. I'd suggest creating a bug report about options missing in the list (mentioning -gtt[t[t]] and anything else you'd be aware of. You (or anyone else ;-) ) may deduce the list of supported options from options.pas _plus_ the options supported in fpc.pas. > Long time ago there was a discussion about those missing options but > they may be added. Does anybody know? > > I looked at FPC sources trying to find where the help strings are done. > I only found "msgtxt.inc" which apparently is generated, but where is > it generated? This file is indeed generated from fpcsrc/compiler/msg/errore.msg where all the texts emitted by the compiler are stored while allowing easy translation to other languages (it's a simple text file with just a few conventions for proper parsing - some for the messages issued during compilation, others for proper displaying of the help). Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
