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In article 
<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?
> 
> 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?

David -

I did this with Alex's flex/bison plugins last summer and it was pretty 
simple.  CW seems to just get it if you set up the link order correctly.

You _do_ have to add the output file, but it is not a big deal.

HTH,

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- rmgw

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