| Nice ways to compile [message #43435] |
Sat, 09 April 2005 19:38  |
Robert Barnett
Messages: 70
Registered: May 2004
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Hi,
I'm looking for an easier way to compile my code into a .sav file. It
would save a considerable of time an effort if compilation was
just one step only. It would also make it much more repoducible and less
bug prone.
I've included a synopsis of how I go about things starting with my
development workflow:
* Program concept and design
* Demonstrate concept using snippets of code and interactive mode
* Package the code so it can be easily accessed and reused
* Test the package, particularily for interopability with other
pakcages.
* Continually refine test and refine package until it does what it is
supposed to do
+ Complile the package and depenancies to a save file and run in an IDL
VM "sandbox" environment.
* Briefly test that it works in the VM as I would expect it to.
* Install application on target computer.
I develop using emacs. I expect to be able to compile my IDL packages
with a single UNIX script (step marked as a +). I also expect that my
compilation depends solely on the contents of the filesystem rather than
the current state of the IDL command prompt. This ensures that I can
always return to a snapshot of my idl directory as it was when I
compiled my code.
For example, I currently compile like the following:
./compiler.pl ../deployed/ra_dualrenal.sav robbies_tools/ snaptools/
renal_analysis/
compiler.pl is just a simple perl script with the syntax:
./compiler <save file> <path1> <path2> ...
compiler.pl compiles all .pro files in any sub-directories in the given
paths. I always run a cvs commit or do a backup of my IDL directory when
I do this step.
I appreciate that
there are smart compilation scripts out there, but I prefer to specify
each path individually because I use call_method, call_procedure,
call_function and obj_new quite a bit. I also cannot afford to find out
that I missed a dependacy buried somewhere in a widget control. This is
particularly troublesome after I've installed the IDL runtime
application at a hospital which is an hours drive away.
Specifically, I've had problems reliably compiling some IDL graphics
classes for use on the IDL VM. I thought that running
IDLITRESOLVEITOOLS might do the trick, but it evidently hasn't. At the
same time I don't really want to compile the entire IDL library every
time. I just want to resolve the IDL graphics classes
which I want to use (or at least just compile a single category of
classes).
Perhaps I am looking at this problem completely wrong. I would expect
there to be some way I can append a compiler directive which indicates
that blah__define.pro requires 'idlgrlegend__define'. Compiler
directives are not really in the IDL idiom, so I'm wondering what other
choices I might have.
Cheers,
Robbie
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nrb@ Robbie Barnett
imag Research Assistant
wsahs Nuclear Medicine & Ultrasound
nsw Westmead Hospital
gov Sydney Australia
au +61 2 9845 7223
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