[Gambas-devel] Adding files to component projects

[Randall Morgan]

Thank you for the info.

I know I ask a lot of dumb questions but the day will come when I have this
all figured out. Then I hope to be an asset rather than a liability to your
project.

Randall


2012/2/2 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>

> Le 02/02/2012 11:39, Randall Morgan a écrit :
> > Good morning Benoit,
> >
> > I do have an understanding of autotools at a very high level.
> >
> > I understand that the Makefile contains rules for the files to be
> > compiled. But I have worked with only the simplest of makefiles, all
> > written by hand .  I did do a little research before asking this
> > question. I always try to locate the answers myself first. However, I do
> > not have a good grasp of the m4 scripting language or it's use in these
> > makefiles. I am also a bit paranoid of screwing something else up.... In
> > my mind a simple ./reconf should have done it as it looks to me like the
> > m4 scripts try to locate all the .c and .h files, and reconf runs
> > autoconf. But I did not get an object file, c_complex.o file, when I did
> > this. The only dependency on c_complex.c is in the main file's CLASSES
> > array. So what have I missed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Randall
> >
>
> You never modify Makefiles or any generated file. This is the job of
> autoconf and automake.
>
> What you must modify is the Makefile.am file. Each time you add a source
> file (*.c, *.cpp or *.h) you must add it to the list of sources files in
> the Makefile.am file, at the line beginning with "gb_gsl_la_SOURCES ="
>
> Then you must regenerate the files, either by running automake or doing
> a './reconf' in the 'gb.gsl' directory. The './reconf' is heavier, as it
> does everything from scratch, but you are sure that everything is
> correctly regenerated.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
>
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The correct questions however are... What will it cost, and how long will
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