building fltk apps

[MarkR]

I am using the latest distro 1.0-finalbeta with the posted 'fix' to the console runner (I don't mind hitting enter  :wink: ) on W2K with CygWin.  First off, very nice.  I have slowly been making the switch from an editor and bash shell into C::B and haven't found anything bad yet!

Question 1:
How to pass args (ie appname <args>) to console runner?

Question 2:
How to run fltk-config <option> <option> <option> so that my cxxflags and ldflags reflect the return values from fltk-config.  I tried it as a pre-build command (with and without the single quotes) and it seemed to fail horribly.  Like it did not know fltk-config was in my cygwin search path.

Reflections on above:
I am sure that there must be a way to pass console runner an arg list.  I just can't seem to locate it (nor get hits using search here).  Please advise.

Running fltk-config is the best way to get all the needed compiler options and linker includes I know of for building an fltk app.  In a perfect world I could run:

Code

fltk-config --use-images --cxxflags
// This output would be used when compiling
fltk-config --use-images --ldflags
// This gives the needed link libraries

Apart from not being able to find out how to pass args I now just run the above commands and hand copy the libs into the linker section.  I then created an fltkAPP user template but since you don't always need --use-images (or the flags for GL) I end up with extra link libs.

Thanks for your time and an excellent (and open) product.

A happy customer,
Mark

[mandrav]

Question 1:
How to pass args (ie appname <args>) to console runner?

The arguments to be passed when executing your program, can be set in "Project->Set execution parameters".

Question 2:
How to run fltk-config <option> <option> <option> so that my cxxflags and ldflags reflect the return values from fltk-config. I tried it as a pre-build command (with and without the single quotes) and it seemed to fail horribly. Like it did not know fltk-config was in my cygwin search path.

Not possible in "direct-mode", only in GNU "make" mode. To set this, go to "Compiler->Compiler options->Other->Build method".

HTH,
Yiannis.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much, it did help a lot.  The first I may (or not) have found eventually.  The second, drat!  Just when I thought I threw the Makefile monkey from my back.  Oh well.

Mark

[rickg22]

BTW Maybe we should change "Set Execution parameters" to "Set program arguments". Parameter looks too generic, and many people seem to migrate from Visual blah.

[mandrav]

Thank you very much, it did help a lot.  The first I may (or not) have found eventually.  The second, drat!  Just when I thought I threw the Makefile monkey from my back.  Oh well.
Mark

Well, not possible yet

BTW Maybe we should change "Set Execution parameters" to "Set program arguments". Parameter looks too generic, and many people seem to migrate from Visual blah.

Sure Rick, go ahead

Yiannis.