[great-users] UserCodeLibrary attributes -- how do they work?

[Attila Vizhanyo]

The delimiter you can use is the comma ',' character.
The documentation will be updated in the following GReAT release.


Matthew J. Emerson wrote:

> I couldn’t find much documentation of UserCodeLibrary attributes in 
> the GReAT User manual. In fact, the only documentation I found for the 
> feature was, “UserCodeLibrary* *contains the additional user 
> predefined library files, include files and the corresponding 
> directories.” Maybe we could document here exactly how this feature works.
>
> There are four fields that can be filled in to include external code 
> in a GReAT transformation:
>
> Include files?
>
> Library Files?
>
> Include Directories?
>
> Library Directories?
>
> So, what are the answers to the following questions:
>
>    1. What exactly is the purpose of each of these fields?
>    2. Does the purpose or interpretation of some of the fields change
>       based on whether one uses the GRE or the CG?
>    3. What is the effect of whitespace in the different fields? Does
>       it act as an entry delimiter? Does it cause strange errors to
>       have whitespace in a path name?
>    4. In which fields are quotation marks around paths expected, and
>       in which are they disallowed? In which are they optional? If I
>       place quotation marks around a path name, is it always okay for
>       that path name to include whitespace?
>    5. What delimiters should we use if, for instance, we need to
>       reference multiple files in “Include files?”?
>
> At this point, I do not know how to reliably generate a working 
> project file/make file using any of the UserCodeLibrary fields, except 
> by including a single header file per UserCodeLibrary atom (using only 
> the “Include files?” field) and copying the needed files into either 
> the CG project directory or the GReAT\tmp directory. Obviously, this 
> means I can’t really distribute a GReAT project to others in such a 
> way that they can build a transformation using the CG or the GRE 
> without copying around files or editing the library header files I 
> provide depending on what they want to do.
>
> Some documentation of how this feature works would really help.
>
> --Matt
>
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