Well, I just sent Bake version 1.00 up to hobbes.  Should be in the
"incoming"
directory of ftp.cdrom.com.  If they ever get around to looking at it, I
suggested putting it in the unix/emx09a directory.  The filename is
bakev100.zip.

Bake is "better than make", an easier to use project manager for
EMX.  A bake
file looks like this:

filename.exe
file1.cc
file2.cc
file3.cc

The first line is the "target" file.  Depending on the extension,
bake can make
one of six different types of output files:

  ".exe" : a 32 bit OS/2 native executable.
  ".dll" : A dynamic link library
  ".lib" : A static link library
  ".emx" : A .exe file that uses full EMX unix emulation
           (Uses .o and .a files, runs under both dos & os2 with emx.)
  ".em2" : A .exe file that uses EMX optimized for OS/2.
           (Uses .lib and .obj files, only runs under OS/2, needs emx.dll.)
           (Faster and smaller than .emx, but still highly unix compatible.)
  ".a"   : A unix static library for use with ".emx" executables.

When using emx as a normal OS/2 compiler, you'll probably only use the first
three extensions.

The rest of the lines in the bake file are "source" lines, which
tell it what
the target file is compiled out of.  Extensions on these files that bake knows
how to deal with are:

  ".c"   : ANSI C code
  ".C"   : C++ code
  ".cc"  : C++ code
  ".cxx" : C++ code
  ".cpp" : C++ code
  ".obj" : Pre-compiled object module
  ".lib" : Extra library to link with.
  ".def" : Module definition files
  ".rc"  : Resource file (text)
  ".res" : Resource file (binary)
  ".o"   : Unix style pre-compiled object file (for ".emx" mode)
  ".a"   : Unix style library (".emx" mode)

Bake figures out its own dependencies by looking at the source code.  It's
specific to the EMX version of GCC, so it can provide its own command lines.

In other words, you don't have to do make files anymore.  Just name the file
you want to make and the files it's made out of, and run bake.exe.

The default name for the bake file is "bakefile".  If you want to name it
something else, give the name as the first argument to bake.exe, as in

bake freddy

To use a bake file named "freddy".

It comes with docs.  I spent a lot of time writing up the docs.  It is now 3
am.  Go read the docs.  I'm going to bed.

Rob
 
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