Hello I am having a difficult time making my 1^st custom generator and was hoping someone more experienced would be able to guide me.  I am currently using a standard generator to produce a C and an H file from a PREPROCESSED_C file:

   

    type.register MOCK_C : : C ;

    type.register MOCK_H : : H ;

 

    generators.register-standard mock.generate : PREPROCESSED_C : MOCK_C(mock_%) MOCK_H(mock_%) ;

 

This generator is often invoked like this:

   

    mock-c mock : file1.c ;

    exe test : mock ;

 

which correctly compiles and links the C file and ignores the H file.  The H file is used elsewhere using <implicit-dependency>mock.

 

Now I want to also add support for producing this set of C and H files from a set of H files.  The chain needs to look something like this:  h files -> c file -> preprocessed c file -> mock_c and mock_h.  If I do this:

 

    generators.register-standard mock.generate_c : H : C ;

 

Then rather than ignoring the produced MOCK_H file, in the exe target above, it tries to make a C file from it and then link it in also.  This is not desired. 

 

So I am trying to do something like this:

 

    type.register HLIST_C ;

    generators.register-standard mock.generate_hlist : H : HLIST_C ;

 

and then the chain looks like this: h files -> HLIST_C file -> preprocessed c file -> mock_c and mock_h but I cannot figure out how to coerce the HLIST_C file to be passed as input to the preprocessed_c generator without inheriting the C base file type.  I tried creating a custom generator that would go from a set of H files to a PREPROCESSED_C file but still could not figure out how to convert an HLIST_C target to be a C target that could be consumed by a PREPROCESSED_C generator.  I tried clone-with-different-type() but this caused duplicate targets.

 

Any help with this is much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Chris