Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Win32 generation toolchain (perl, python, bash, ...) and conf

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From: "prosen" <prosen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:44:39 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
 
> If
> 
> 	1) the IDE supports using arbitrary tools to build 
> files (for example, 
> using the Perl script "process-x11-fields.pl" to generate 
> "x11-declarations.h" and "x11-register-info.h"

That is easy. There is a "Custom Build" tab that I've used before to
generate .c files.
 
> and
> 
> 	2) either there's a way to include "Makefile.common" to 
> get lists of 
> source files in the project or somebody writes a tool to 
> generate .dsw 
> and .dsp files from Makefile.am and Makefile.common
 
The formats of .dsw and .dsp are fairly simple text files, so I'd guess
that a tool to generate them would be simple, too. I definitely wasn't
suggesting that they be maintained by hand!