Re: [Boost-build] Custom generator

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Custom generator
From: mlenger (mlenger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-19 05:25:19

Hello Juraj,

Thanks for your reply! I had to change the composing generator into a
standard generator. Otherwise the action process-wsdl was never called.
Im using Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 11);Boost.Jam 03.1.13.

Thanks
Markus

Am Samstag, den 15.05.2010, 19:39 +0200 schrieb Juraj Ivančić:
> On 14.5.2010 16:46, mlenger wrote:
> > I want to use Boost.Build for calling gsoap parsers that generate cpp- and
> > header-files from wsdl-files. I´ve tried adapting the generator examples
> > but am becoming more and more desperate. The problem is, that there are one
> > or more wsdl-files  that are composed into header and implementation files.
> > There is no 1-1 relationship between wsdl and cpp or header files but
> > rather a arbitrary number of input files and a fixed number of output
> > files. Any ideas?
> 
> Boost.Build provides composing generator for this purpose. E.g.
> (untested)
> 
> <gsoap.jam>
> import type ;
> import generators ;
> 
> type.register WSDL : wsdl ;
> generators.register-composing gsoap.process-wsdl : WSDL : CPP HPP ;
> 
> # here you provide command line which invokes gsoap
> # and generates cpp and hpp
> actions process-wsdl
> {
>      echo "WSDLs: $(2)"
>      echo "Output CPP: $(1[1])"
>      echo "Output HPP: $(1[2])"
> }
> </gsoap.jam>
> 
> This allows using wsdl files as a source for executable or library
> directly:
> 
> import gsoap ;
> exe client : client.cpp server.wsdl ;
> 
> See
> http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/doc/html/bbv2/extending/tools.html
> for details.
> 
> HTH
> 
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