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

[Attila Vizhanyo]

If it is only the specification of these fields that prevents you from 
doing work, just send me what you want to specify, and I will format it 
for you. ;)

Matthew J. Emerson wrote:

>>The documentation will be updated in the following GReAT release.
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>That doesn't help me get any work done today. ;)
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>--Matt
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>>bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of Attila Vizhanyo
>>Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 11:19 AM
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>>Subject: Re: [great-users] UserCodeLibrary attributes -- how do they
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>work?
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>>The delimiter you can use is the comma ',' character.
>>The documentation will be updated in the following GReAT release.
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>>Matthew J. Emerson wrote:
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>>>I couldn't find much documentation of UserCodeLibrary attributes in
>>>the GReAT User manual. In fact, the only documentation I found for
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>>>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
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>>>There are four fields that can be filled in to include external code
>>>in a GReAT transformation:
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>>>Include files?
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>>>Library Files?
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>>>Include Directories?
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>>>Library Directories?
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>>>So, what are the answers to the following questions:
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>>>   1. What exactly is the purpose of each of these fields?
>>>   2. Does the purpose or interpretation of some of the fields
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>>>      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
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>>>      that path name to include whitespace?
>>>   5. What delimiters should we use if, for instance, we need to
>>>      reference multiple files in "Include files?"?
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>>>At this point, I do not know how to reliably generate a working
>>>project file/make file using any of the UserCodeLibrary fields,
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>>>by including a single header file per UserCodeLibrary atom (using
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>>>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.
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>>>Some documentation of how this feature works would really help.
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>>>--Matt
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