Re: Re: [Synopsis-devel] Building on win32 without Cygwin

[email protected] wrote:

> I've tried scons. It seems pretty cool, but I'm not sure how well it
> replaces configure in terms of finding all the tools to use.

I don't think it does that at all. That's one reason I didn't go down
this route further.


> I put the python23.dll in my mingw/lib directory, then added -lpython23
> to LIBS in the makefile for the Cxx parser. you're supposed turn the
> python23.dll into libpython23.a like this
> (http://sebsauvage.net/python/mingw.html) but for some reason this
> worked for me.

Interesting. I'll have to try it out (I'll be working with windows
starting next week or so, so I can look into windows native support
for synopsis).
I'v come across a post on comp.lang.python where someone mailed about
an RFE concerning libpythonxy.a being included in windows python packages
for the above reason.


> To be honest, I want to use your Cxx parser to make a test collector in
> python (http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestCollector). How do I call the
> parser directly from a python script? using Cxx.Parser.process, I'm not
> sure what to pass into as the parameter 'ast', or how to get the AST
> object out.

indeed, and I don't think it would be of much use for you the way it is right now.
I'm not preserving the whole AST, but just the declarations. Is that really
enough for you to generate a unit test automatically ?

In case you are interested, I'm looking into extending the synopsis API
to support the richer AST the C++ backend ('Openc++') generates, so more
advanced use cases such as code generation are supported. That work
will take quite some time, so please don't hold your breath. However, any
contribution would of course get us there faster :-)

Regards,
		Stefan