[Doxygen-develop] Visual C++ 6, the latest CVS release, and CodeWarrior integration

[Simon G. <sim...@at...>]

Hi Doxygenators,

I just got the new CVS release and tried to compile it with VC++6
on Windoze2k, and got the following error messages when I ran the
make.bat script:

c:\dev\doxygen-1.2.17\src\ce_parse.cpp(337) : error C2620: union 'yyalloc' : member 'yyvs' has user-defined constructor or non-trivial default constructor
c:\dev\doxygen-1.2.17\src\ce_parse.cpp(784) : error C2039: 'yyvs' : is not a member of 'yyalloc'
        c:\dev\doxygen-1.2.17\src\ce_parse.cpp(335) : see declaration of 'yyalloc'

I worked around this by copying that source file from the
previous doxygen release:

cp ../doxygen-1.2.16/src/ce_parse.cpp src/ce_parse.cpp

This got it to build from the command line. I don't know if I have
broken anything by doing so but it seems superficially OK. Maybe
a flex/bison devotee can explain what's going on? The ce_parse.cpp
file is being generated automagically. It's also possible that the 
'problem' is in Risible (sic) C++6. Has anyone else tried this recently?

In any case,  I needed to add the following to the project file to get 
it to build from the VC++6 IDE:

src\docparser.cpp
src\docparser.h
src\doctokeniser.h
src\doctokeniser.cpp
src\cmdmapper.cpp
src\cmdmapper.h

I attach an updated DSP file which encapsulates these additions. Note
that you still need to run 'make msvc' once from the command line
before the IDE build will work. That's because VC++6 does not know
how to parse the flex and bison files that generate some of the C source
that needs to be compiled (and I don't know how to tell it to do so ;-). 
Once you've run that make once, you can build variants from the IDE 
as long as you have not changed any of the flex and bison data files.

Cheers

Simon Goodwin
Technology Programmer, ATD

P.S. if any of you have to use or support Metrowerks's CodeWarrior you
may like to know a way to integrate Doxygenated helpfile documentation
into their IDE (similar to the MSDNIntegrator for DevStudio - I have had
no replies to my request for an equivalent for VC++7 (aka .NET), sadly).

We have just persuaded Metrowerks to add support for third-party helpfiles
and although it is not part of the release yet, it does work and we (ATD and
Metrowerks) are looking for testers. Contact me if you'd like to know more.

-- 
Simon Goodwin <sim...@at...>