Hi Adrian,
even if you'd assimilate all of my _MSC_VER related patches, the project
would still not compile under Visual Studio, as some files would be missing.
Besides manipulating argv for the -I cmd line option, there's still the
problem of the '\' char, that is generally interpreted as an escape for
sources, but inside path specs on a Windows box it is not at all an escape
char. Either you allow for a mechanism to not interpret the '\' char, e.g.
as is done by Perl using single quote chars, or use a "subgrammar" when a
path name is expected, thereby omitting any quoting rules. The choice is
yours.
Iff^0 you want to unify the sources for the Linux and Windows build, you'd
probably need to take the following steps:
(1) replace the automake/configure crap with cmake to have a real cross
platform build system
(2) make a design decision on how to handle any path separation character
as described above
For the time being (the next 1000 years^1), the current patches and
additions are bad but not that that bad. First, the additional Visual Studio
related files are static with the restriction that only a single Visual
Studio version is supported (more or less). Secondly, there are only minimal
code changes (even less if I forget to patch some source files).
Once a decision has been made, (2) should be straightforward. Unfortunately,
(1) is really involved. I have done some beginner's projects with cmake, but
lately I am running only third party cmake based projects. Currently I am
using some cmake based open source software from Oracle which nicely builds
on headless Linux servers as well as on my Windows 7 machine and even IDEs
for easy debugging and exploring are supported. If there is sufficient
common interest I'd would be willing to invest some time into it. As far as
running Ragel for a specific platform is concerned, I have doubts that the
effort ist justified. If basic cross platform support is a higher goal, then
it could make sense.
jg
^0: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if
^1: This refers to "once and for all". Homework: elaborate on the historic
background of both remarks and explain the irony :(
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