PilRC using defines

[Bob Withers]

Hi,

I'm fairly new at PilRC having recently converted a project from 
Constructor resources to .rcp files using the method described on Ben 
Combee's site (thanks Ben).

One of my goals in doing this was to have control over the definition of 
constants.  I've found that while PilRC supports #define for ID numbers it 
does not support strings (please correct me if I'm wrong).  For example, in 
a header file I would like to define:

#define APP_VERSION		"1.0.0"

and in my .rcp file say:

VERSION ID 1000 APP_VERSION

In addition, I'd like to use preprocessor conditionals within a form 
definition.  They work OK outside of a definition.  For example:

#ifdef ABC
FORM ID ...
END
#else
FORM ID ...
END
#endif
is OK but

FORM ID ...
BEGIN
#ifdef ABC
        LABEL ...
#else
        LABEL ...
#endif
END
doesn't work.

I was thinking of renaming the .rcp file and running it through a C 
preprocessor first with the output being input to PilRC but I'd like it to 
automatically build from within CW9 and I don't know how to do that.

Any advice?

Thanks,
Bob
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