[GCC-XML]Re: Problems with GCC_XML under windows

[Jason Stanek]

Is it possible that you are getting the "cl" error because the MSVC bin 
directory is not in your PATH environment variable (or vsvars.bat has not 
been run)?

At 08:26 AM 05/13/2004, Brad King wrote:
>Bennett, Ian wrote:
>>Hallo Brad,
>>I am building a C++ class browser under windows 2000, and would like to 
>>use GCC_XML to parse class information into XML.  I have downloaded the 
>>gcc_xml, and followed the installation instructions, including  running 
>>the following programs / batch files i) gccxml_vcupdate.bat, ii) 
>>vcInstall.exe, and iii) vcPatch.exe.
>
>Where did you find instructions to use these commands?  They should be 
>automatically executed by the build system generated by CMake.
>
> > I then created an empty VC++
>>(msvc6), project and tried to compile it using GCC_XML.  I had the 
>>following problems:
>>         1) gccxml.exe always give the error message  "Compiler "cl" is 
>> not supported by GCC_XML because none of MSVC 6, 7, or 7.1 is installed. 
>> Could not determine GCCXML_FLAGS setting.".  If I call
>>gccxml_cc1plus.exe directly, however, it does at least start to compile 
>>the VC++ files. My GCCXML_Config file contains the following information:
>>
>>                         GCCXML_COMPILER="cl"
>>                         GCCXML_CXXFLAGS="/nologo /MDd /W3 /Gm /GX /ZI 
>> /Od /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_AFXDLL" /D
>>
>>"_MBCS" /Fp"Debug/gccxml.pch" /Yu"stdafx.h" /Fo"Debug/" /Fd"Debug/" /FD 
>>/GZ /c"
>>                         GCCXML_ROOT="C:\Progs\GCC_XML\share\gccxml-0.6\Vc6"
>
>What do you mean by compiling a project with gccxml?
>
>How was MSVC 6 installed?  There should be a registry entry that lets 
>GCC-XML detect it.
>
>>         2) I would like to parse c. 30-50 individual VC++ projects. Can 
>> I make use of the .dsp files or .mak files (created by "export 
>> makefile"). Or do I need to write / generate new makefiles specially for 
>> gcc_xml.  If       so, could you send me a an example gcc_xml makefile, 
>> based in an empty msvc6 VC++ Project?
>>Regards, and many thanks for taking the time to answer these questions
>
>GCC-XML is not a compiler.  It is just a tool with a command line 
>interface that looks a little bit like a compiler.  You can write 
>makefiles, create project files, whatever you want, but you have to 
>manually construct command lines and configure the build system to run them.
>
>-Brad
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