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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Adding a compiler to GPS or a GPR project
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:31:01 +0100
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:05:45 -0800 (PST), Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) wrote:

> Withins GPS, it is easy to add support for a language syntax, as easy
> as it is on most today's editors or IDEs. But I was not able to find
> how to associate a compilation command to a file of a given language,
> either in GPS or in a GPR project file.
> 
> This is not formally required, as this could probably be done manually
> most of times, but just that this would be cleaner.
> 
> GPS can compile C files in a project (sometimes a few ones may be
> required) invoking gcc to produce the corresponding object file in the
> object output directory. Is it possible to do the same with let say,
> *.rc files (Windows resource files) ?
> 
> I had a look at the GPS documentation, and found about the <Language>
> root tag for XML configuration files. This allow to define most of
> syntactic concerns of a language, but I was not able to find a way to
> define a command line to compile a file of a given language with this
> kind of configuration files.

What about:

http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gprbuild-docs/html/gprbuild_ug.html#Package-Compiler

which defines the compiler for the given language. (The compilation command
line is determined by a combination of various project setting, obviously.)

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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