makeskel

introduction

The makeskel tool can be used to generate an empty description file for a unit. The description file will contain an element node for each identifier in the interface section of the Pascal unit.

It’s usage is quite straightforward: the name of an input file (one or more) must be specified (as for ), an output file, and the name of a package:

makeskel --package=rtl --input=crt.pp --output=crt.xml

This will read the file crt.pp and will create a file crt.xml which contains empty nodes for all identifiers found in crt.pp, all in a package named rtl.

The input option can be given more than once, as for the fpdoc command:

makeskel --input='-Sn system.pp' --input=crt.pp --output=rtl.xml

As can be seen, the input option can contain some compiler options, as is the case for . The above command will process the files system.pp and crt.pp, and will create tags for the identifiers in both units in the file rtl.xml.

The output of makeskel is a valid, empty description file. It will contain a tag for each unit specified, and each will have tags for each identifier in the unit.

Each tag will by default contain , , and tags, but this can be customised.