Hi.

I did read the documentation, I look for more information on the Internet and I've read some Makefile.fpc files on the FPC sources, but I can't create a Makefile.fpc file for my project. I can't understand most of the options and the project is pretty complex: it's a package that includes a bunch of examples, two demos, several tools and "pasdoc-style" documentation.

Isn't a "fpcmake For Dummys" somewhere? I really need it.

Guillermo "Ñuño" Martínez

Hi Guillermo,

I struggled with it as well. Henry Vermaak then created an example for me and showed how to use it. The example he did was for the fpGUI Toolkit project.

Usage:
- Compile fpmake.pas as follows:
fpc fpmake.pas

- To find out more about what fpmake can do and see some help fpmake --help

- Build and install fpGUI
fpmake install

Note that if you installed FPC in a non-standard location on you system you need to tell fpmake which compiler and units to use. The following is all in one line:
fpmake.exe -r c:\fpc\2.2.3\bin\i386-win32\ppc386.exe -UG c:\fpc\2.2.3\units\i386-win32
or
./fpmake -v build -UG /opt/fpc/lib/fpc/2.2.3/units/i386-linux/

To view the actual fpmake.pas file, you can check-out fpGUI from SourceForge, or view the specific file via the following url.

http://fpgui.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fpgui;a=blob;f=src/fpmake.pas;h=80e0be3d69132ae12b2c4c970fe29e14c500cb14;hb=67f8fcc69fec98c12d2dac11980ed97d12d380c6

If you have problems with the full URL, you can also use this one:

http://tinyurl.com/ce8s52

I have not read the documentation of fpmake for some time, but when I did, it was not clear as to how to compile and use it. I'll download a new copy of the documentation to see if things are improved - and contribute some "newbie" help if nothing has changed.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Op dinsdag 14-04-2009 om 08:41 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Graeme Geldenhuys:

I have not read the documentation of fpmake for some time, but when I did, it was not clear as to how to compile and use it. I'll download a new copy of the documentation to see if things are improved - and contribute some "newbie" help if nothing has changed.

TYou are confusing fpcmake and fpmake. The question was about fpcmake and that is indeed pretty difficult. I woudn't use its anymore and go for the new fpmake-system.

But fpmake is still experimental and there's no real documentation available. So I doubt that you read it at all. ;)

But your short introduction to fpmake is quite good.

Joost.

Joost van der Sluis wrote

> contribute some "newbie" help if nothing has changed. TYou are confusing fpcmake and fpmake. The question was about fpcmake and that is indeed pretty difficult.

Oops, my apologies. I did not realize it was the one spelt with a 'c'. :-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Actually I was asking for fpCmake...

Anyway, I'll test your suggestion. Thanks.

Guillermo "Ñuño" Martínez.

I did read Vermaak's example and I've found some documentation at the wiki (http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPMake) but I can't understand it. That's the program I wrote:
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PROGRAM fpmake;
USES
  fpmkunit;
VAR
  I: TCustomInstaller;
  P: TPackage;
  T: TTarget;
  UnitsList: ARRAY [0..8] OF STRING = (
    'albase', 'alblend', 'alfile', 'alfixed', 'alflic', 'algl', 'allegro',
    'alvga', 'alvtable'
  );
  IncList: ARRAY [0..1] OF STRING = (
    'alkeyid'. 'alsysdrv'
  );
  Cnt: INTEGER;
BEGIN
  I := Installer;
  P := I.AddPackage ('allegro.pas');
  P.Version := '4.3.0-SVN';
  P.UnitPath.Add ('lib');
  FOR Cnt := 0 TO 8 DO
  BEGIN
    T := P.Targets.AddUnit (UnitsList[Cnt]+'.pas');
  END;
{ How do I do to add included files?
  FOR Cnt := 0 TO 1 DO
  BEGIN
    T := P.Targets.AddUnit (IncList[Cnt]+'.inc');
  END;
}
  I.Run;
END.
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It compiles but when I run "./fpmake archive" it returns a lot of "Warning: source file * not found for *" but they actually exists(!).

The idea is to install all files from "UnitsList" and "IncList" in the FPC's unit directory so they're accessible to any project. Optionally there's also documentation (build from sources using "pasdoc"), some examples, a complex demonstration (with data) and two tools.

Can somebody help me to understand it?

Guillermo "Ñuño" Martínez

2009/4/26 Guillermo Martínez Jiménez :

It compiles but when I run "./fpmake archive" it returns a lot of "Warning: source file * not found for *" but they actually exists(!).

I actually have no idea how to add include files. The example Henry created only sets up the include paths, but not include files for 'archive' functionality.

I browser the sources and noticed there is Sources.Add(), but I'm not sure if that will do the trick.
eg:

   T := P.Sources.AddSrc('filename_here');

Can somebody help me to understand it?

Michael? Any idea how to use the 'archive' feature of fpmake?

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

There is also:

procedure TSources.AddSrcFiles(const AFileMask: string; Recursive: boolean);

It does a search and adds all files.

Michael.

2009/4/26 Guillermo Martínez Jiménez :

i'm sorry my example is a bit crap, never got round to do it properly. it's best if you work off something in the fpc sources. for example in packages/mysql/fpmake.pp there is this:

    T:=P.Targets.AddUnit('mysql3_com.pp');
      with T.Dependencies do
        begin
          AddInclude('mysql3_comtypes.inc');
          AddUnit('mysql3_version');
        end;

henry