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NLMakesis: update v1.3

eric — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:27:47 +0200

v1.4: add support for the @<device> syntax

NLMakesis: update v1.3

eric — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:10:00 +0200

For those who uploaded the very first version yesterday:
v1.1: added support for Symbian v9 SDKs
v1.2: added cpp preprocessor support
v1.3: added support for SDK with an alias

Suggestion for another feature

eric — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:36:54 +0200

Nice idea. The script and the page are now updated with this new feature.

Symbian 9 SDKs

eric — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:04:34 +0200

Yes, the problem is with the interpretation of the "-d" parameter. Thank you for pointing to this!

Symbian 9 SDKs

Marcus Groeber — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:21:26 +0200

For Symbian 9 SDKs, this article may be helpful, which refers to a bug-fixed version of makesis that again properly interprets the "-d" switch. Could this be the reason why the tool fails for 3rd Edition and UIQ3?

Suggestion for another feature

Marcus Groeber — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:15:25 +0200

One feature I found very useful in a makesis "wrapper" tool that I wrote for my own projects is the ability to pass .pkg files through the C pre-processor, allowing you to use directives such as #include, #define, #ifdef etc. in a package file.

This is especially helpful when using similar .pkg files for different platforms. It also allows you to use a single set of #include files, e.g. for version numbers, UIDs, or product names, within both the source code and the .pkg file.

Essentially I wrote a simple Ruby script that takes the usual makesis switches, plus additionally "-I dir" and "-Dmacro[=val]", and sends the .pkg file through cpp with a commandline such as

cpp -lang-asm -P -undef [-I and -D switches]

before calling the original makesis on the output. Using lang-asm seems to match the .pkg syntax best for comment recognition etc.

As a convention, I use the extension .pkgp for .pkg files that contain pre-processor directives.

I think integrating this function into NLMakesis could be worth looking at.

NLMakesis: enhanced Makesis for Symbian OS

eric — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:55:56 +0200

[Updated: v1.4] NLMakesis is a small utilities that improves the way Symbian OS Makesis works by adding two new capabilities for packaging your application with the possibility to have SDK independent pkg file and to process your pkg file using the CPP preprocessor