Re: linking C++ object files

Luc Hermitte wrote:

> I'm runing into something strange with the latest AAPs (1.068 & 1.072).
> 
> I have a program made of two .cpp files.
> AAP correctly uses "g++ -c" on both of them, but it uses "gcc" to link
> the object files produced/
> According to http://www.a-a-p.org/aapversionlog.html, I understand I
> should not have any problem since theversion 1.031, but I have.
> 
> I'm running aap.bat from cygwin. My main.aap contains:
> 
>     UNITS = realpath 
>     SRC   = cw-$*UNITS
>     TESTS = tests/test_$*UNITS
> 
>     # For cygwin only!
>     :usetool gcc
> 
>     :print tests::BDIR        is $BDIR
>     :print tests -> $TESTS
> 
>     all : $TESTS
> 
>     # ###################################################################
>     # Recipes
> 
>     :program tests/test_realpath : tests/test_realpath.cpp cw-realpath.cpp
> 
> 
> Do I have to specify additionnal libraries, or force the filetype ? Or
> is it a bug ?

Did you try leaving out the ":usetool gcc"?  That seems to avoid the
problem for me.  It's still a problem though, telling Aap to use gcc
should still result in g++ used for linking.  This patch appears to fix
that:

*** tools/gcc.py.orig	Fri Jun 11 16:07:17 2004
--- tools/gcc.py	Thu Nov 25 12:24:52 2004
***************
*** 59,64 ****
--- 59,65 ----
  
      define_action("compile_gxx", 0, """
  	    :buildcheck $OPTIMIZE $?DEBUG
+             :attr {buildaction = build_gxx} $target	# Need to build with $CXX
              :sys $GXX $CPPFLAGS $?DEFINE $?INCLUDE `cflags_normal()` $CXXFLAGS -o $target -c $source
              """,
              outtypes = ["object", "libobject"],


> BTW, is there an AAP compiler-plugin for vim somewhere ?

No, you can simply do:

	:set makeprg=aap

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