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<oster-B8530D.08470726022002@newssvr14-ext.news.prodigy.com>,
 David Phillip Oster <oster@ieee.org> wrote:

>What is the best way to use a source code generator with Codewarrior?
>
>Say, I've got something like lex or yacc, that takes source code in a 
>little language and generates a new file or stream of c++ source code, 
>and that my input file has #includes in it. How do I:
>
>1.) Tell Codewarrior that after it runs the translator on the input 
>file, it should run the compiler on the resulting output file?
>
>2.) Tell Codewarrior that the output C file depends on the input file, 
>and also the include files?
>
>3.) What if the translator generates both a .cp file, and a .r file?
>
>Should I be writing my translator as a preprocessor plugin?

either that or use a perl script to do this and use the Perl plugin.

>Should I junk the whole idea of seamless integration with Codewarrior, 
>and just use MPW and MPW's makeFiles to do all the non-Codewarrior 
>processing, then have it send an appleEvent to codewarrior to build the 
>resulting C++?
>
>What part of the Metrowerks documentation should I have read?

You should read the Plugin API Reference.

It seems like this should be something you can do simply, but I'm really 
not up on this stuff.

Ron

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