On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jack Jansen wrote:

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This isn't an option for CodeWarrior (or, at least, it would mean an extraordinary amount of work), as the compilers and such are merely plugins for the IDE, and everything is driven from the projectfile.

Couldn't you generate a lot of "small project files" each of which would compile a single c into a single o, and then one project file for the link stage? Or is that the extaordinary amount of work? (On the face of it, it shouldn't be very different then generating a command line, but then again, I haven't seen a Mac for a few millions of years). Another option would seem to be to use the Apple version of COM (sorry, I forgot how they call it) to talk with a persistent IDE. Wouldn't that work? Or would that be too hard?

This is both a lot of work, and possibly hard as well (I don't think there is anything corresponding to the ".obj" file in the normal course of events, so I would have to find some sort of a hack there).

It's probably all right if nothing better comes along, but the problem is that errors would come up in the wrong place if there are any.

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