At 05:10 PM 12/21/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Despite a tantalizing reference in the CodeWarrior R6 documentation to a
>command-line compiler (to something "mwcc"), I don't see a command-line
>compiler anywhere in the R6 for Palm release on Windows NT. No
>"mwanything.exe", except mwregserver, of course.
>
>The nearest thing I see is a 68Kcompiler.dll, and a "cmdide.exe", which
>doesn't do what it advertises (it just pops up the GUI and sits there,
>regardless of what options I give it, or gives me an error message).
>
>Isn't there any command-line compiler invocation I can use, that does not
>pop up a GUI IDE? We have Palm code that we need to integrate into our
>nightly build (which runs from the equivalent of a cron job on an NT
>server). For everything else (Windows 32-bit, DOS, etc..), we use gnumake
>with command-line compilers.. It'd be a shame if I have to check in
>prebuilt binaries into our source tree..
>
This remains for us one of the most sorely missed development tools. The
ability to incorporate unattended builds into our make system is crucial.
-Checking a ".mcp" file into our version control system is less than
optimal as a way to provide configuration control for projects and builds.
(so are .rsrc files for that matter!)
-Creating project-to-project dependencies and "master builds" is important
to those of us that have multiple component Palm applications, suites, and
multiple products.
Glenn Bachmann
Bachmann Software and Services, LLC
http://www.bachmannsoftware.com
Software for Handheld & Wireless Computing, Windows and the Internet
Authors of "Palm Programming", published by Macmillan/Sams, and home of
Bachmann Print Manager, the only graphical printing solution for the Palm
Computing Platform
