dev-cpp-users

[Dev-C++] Support of templates

[Scott A. S. <ss...@ma...>]

Hello,

It is terrific that Dev-C++ supports templates for creating
one's own project types (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html). 
Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation
that inticates how to do so. Specifically, I would like to create a
DLL project that does NOT make use of dllwrap/dlltool. I believe
that both Cygwin/GCC and MinGW both support generation DLL's directly
with the compiler, so dllwrap/dlltool are becoming obsolete. For me dllwrap
does not work properly in exporting all of my functions (code without 
declspec everywhere) but gcc direclty builds my DLLs properly. Yes, I
could just continually change the Makefile to set linking so that it uses
gcc/c++, but since Dev-C++ supports users making their own templates I'd
prefer that solution. Is this documented anywhere? Does it work in the
latest version? Does anyone know how to make a new template?

Thanks,
Scott

Re: [Dev-C++] Support of templates

[Hongli L. <h....@ch...>]

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:44, Scott A. Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It is terrific that Dev-C++ supports templates for creating
> one's own project types (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html). 
> Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation
> that inticates how to do so. Specifically, I would like to create a
> DLL project that does NOT make use of dllwrap/dlltool. I believe
> that both Cygwin/GCC and MinGW both support generation DLL's directly
> with the compiler, so dllwrap/dlltool are becoming obsolete. For me dllwrap
> does not work properly in exporting all of my functions (code without 
> declspec everywhere) but gcc direclty builds my DLLs properly. Yes, I
> could just continually change the Makefile to set linking so that it uses
> gcc/c++, but since Dev-C++ supports users making their own templates I'd
> prefer that solution. Is this documented anywhere? Does it work in the
> latest version? Does anyone know how to make a new template?
> 

I don't think this is possible. The template only contains basic
information such as the name, icon, compiler options, linker options,
and sample source code.
If you want to use a different compiling method, you will have to build
your own build environment (possibly using make) or dig into Dev-C++'s
source code.

As for creating own templates, just open a .template file in Notepad.
It's in standard INI format, and should be fairly easy to understand.