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

[Matthew J. Emerson]

> The documentation will be updated in the following GReAT release.

That doesn't help me get any work done today. ;)

--Matt

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> bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of Attila Vizhanyo
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> 
> 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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