[Scons-dev] MSVS builder in combination with cross compilation

[Bill Deegan]

Tomer,

Developers will review pull requests which is the preferred method to
submit patches.

-Bill


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Tomer Shalev <shalev.tomer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Bill.
>
> I have a patch to address this issue, therefore I believe it is better for
> developers to review it.
> I forgot to attach the patches to two of my recent post, so here it is.
>
> Thanks,
> Tomer
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Tomer,
>>
>> Please address such message to the users mailing list.
>> The dev mailing list is intended for the internal development of SCons.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
>> p.s. I'm ccing the users mailinglist
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Tomer Shalev <shalev.tomer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello there,
>>>
>>> I work in Windows development environment. I am using the MSVS builder
>>> (env.MSVSProject, env.MSVSSolution) to build a VS solution in which I edit
>>> cross-platform code, and when I build the project is cross-compiles an .elf
>>> file for Linux environment.
>>>
>>> I define the following:
>>>
>>> env.AppendUnique(CCFLAGS = [
>>>     '-Wall',
>>>     '-Werror',
>>>     '-g',
>>>     '-mcpu=arm7tdmi',
>>>     '-DARM7',
>>>     '-DXXTEST',
>>>     '-DUSE_UART',
>>>     '-DMENU_TESTS',
>>>     '-DMY_TESTS',
>>>     '-DUSE_FOO',
>>>     ])
>>>
>>> This setup works well, and I am able to build the VS solution and
>>> project files, and cross-compile an .elf file from the source files I
>>> define.
>>>
>>> However, there is a bug in the Scons builder which is rather annoying.
>>> The VS IDE grays-out code sections that are surrounded by definitions
>>> defined in the Sconscript, e.g. #ifdef USE_FOO.
>>> It is merely a usability bug, since the code compiles as expected. The
>>> only issue is with the IDE (Visual Studio 2008) showing the code grayed-out
>>> and that there is code browsing is unavailable inside that code section.
>>>
>>> In the VS project file, the following line should be defined in order to
>>> remedy this issue:
>>>
>>> PreprocessorDefinitions="ARM7;XXTEST;USE_UART;MENU_TESTS;MY_TESTS;USE_FOO"
>>>
>>> However, the builder currently generates this definition empty. I read
>>> the its code and noticed that the PreprocessorDefinitions line is only
>>> populated according to CPPDEFINES value.
>>>
>>> I tried moving the definitions accordingly:
>>>
>>> env.AppendUnique(CCFLAGS = [
>>>     '-Wall',
>>>     '-Werror',
>>>     '-g',
>>>     '-mcpu=arm7tdmi',
>>>     ])
>>>
>>> env.AppendUnique(CPPDEFINES = [
>>>     'ARM7',
>>>     'XXTEST',
>>>     'USE_UART',
>>>     'MENU_TESTS',
>>>     'MY_TESTS',
>>>     'USE_FOO',
>>>     ])
>>>
>>>
>>> However, since I run the Sconscript in Windows environment, the
>>> compilation flags set by it are not set according to POSIX (it uses /D),
>>> and result in a compilation error when I cross-compile my code from Visual
>>> Studio (using GNU compilers).
>>>
>>> If I set env.Platform(’posix’) in the Sconscript then the MSVS builder
>>> fails to create the project and solution files.
>>>
>>> I created a patch to make the builder sensitive to CCFLAGS values which
>>> starts with '-D' and it works for me. Please see the attach patch file.
>>>
>>> However, I am not sure this is the right solution, and I would be happy
>>> to hear your opinion on the subject. Any help is appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tomer
>>>
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>>>
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