A really good point - I agree. If the command line tools are available,
we'd be ecstatic, even if command-line rez was not available yet.
Glenn
At 11:13 AM 12/28/99 -0800, you wrote:
>While I would definately like a command line
>version of PalmRez (and DeRez!) I don't see
>not having it as a valid reason to hold back
>the command line compiler and linker if it
>is available.
>
>You could still use the GUI form builder
>to create the binary resource file & link
>it in to the freshly compiled code. I make
>changes to code far more frequently than I
>do to the forms -- and when I change the forms
>they would essentially be compiled "on the spot"
>by Constructor, right?
>
>Would the 68k command line tools you've got
>work w/ as-is? Could you make them available
>to registered CW owners via the web site?
>
>--
>-Richard M. Hartman
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jun-Kiat Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 7:47 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Command-line invocation of CodeWarrior compiler?
>>
>>
>> Hi Shankar,
>>
>> Yes, a command-line compiler is definitely one of the things
>> that we would
>> like to include as part of CodeWarrior for Palm. In fact we do have
>> command-line compilers and linker for the 68K target
>> (basically command-line
>> versions of the same plugin compiler we use for CW Palm). The
>> problem is
>> that we don't yet have command-line versions of PalmRez, and it didn't
>> really make much sense to have command-line compilers when
>> you couldn't
>> build complete Palm apps using them. This is something we are
>> looking at
>> including for the next rev of CodeWarrior.
>>
>> Rgds,
>> Jun-Kiat Lam
>> Metrowerks Technical Support
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shankar Unni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 7:10 PM
>> Subject: Command-line invocation of CodeWarrior compiler?
>>
>>
>> > 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..
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > --
>> > Shankar Unni Webvan Group, Inc.
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (650) 524-2290
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
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
