[cfe-dev] Standalone tools

[Kim Gräsman]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Olivier Goffart <ogoffart at kde.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have been doing that even before clang had a VFS.
>>
>> The idea is using cmake to put the content of the file in the binary
>>
>> Using this cmake script
>> https://github.com/woboq/moc-ng/blob/master/src/CMakeLists.txt#L57
>> and
>> https://github.com/woboq/moc-ng/blob/master/src/embedded_includes.h.in
>> This puts the file contents into the binary
>>
>> Then I added a "-I/builtins" to the command line, and used
>> ToolInvocation::mapVirtualFile to expose the files:
>> http://code.woboq.org/mocng/src/main.cpp.html#354
>
>
> Btw, this is how we do it when we have tools that must run without a file
> system.
>

For reference, I tried to replicate Olivier's setup a while back and failed
miserably with MSVC.

The builtin string literals get too large -- MSVC appears to have a limit
of 64K -- so the generated header becomes invalid. :-/

For MSVC, I'd probably have to consider generating resource files, but then
the wiring becomes entirely different and much more convoluted. I'll save
it for a rainy day.

- Kim
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