Re: [Boost-build] Using custom generators

From: John Reid (j.reid_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-13 05:18:23

ping!

John Reid wrote:
> Suppose I have a tool that compiles files of type .g into .cpp .hpp and 
> .txt files. The names of these generated files can not be determined 
> from the filename of the source .g file.
> 
> I can register the .g type and create a rule and an action to run the 
> tool. I am having problems using custom generators to tell boost.build 
> which files the tool will generate.
> 
> I've looked at the documentation:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/extending/tools.html
> 
> and I figured the quickest and easiest way to do this is to define 
> features that are set on each .g source file and then inspect them in 
> the generated-targets rule of the custom generator. Does this sound 
> sensible?
> 
> Given the above I've struggled to work out how to return appropriate 
> values from the custom generator rule. The documentation does not seem 
> to cover this at all. Could someone provide me with example code to 
> extract a filename from a feature and build a suitable return value for 
> the generated-targets rule from it?
> 
> Thanks,
> John.
> 
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