Do with this what you will; here's a patch to the Makefile and to tinyxml.h to add a "make lib" rule for building a static library. Go into the same directory as the Makefile, copy the diff below to a file named makelib.diff, and "patch -p1 < makelib.diff" to apply. This is on tinyxml 2.5.2.
Couple of sketchy things, use your own judgement:
1) Bash script used in the Makefile. I don't know if make always uses bash/sh or if it just uses the user's current shell. If it's the latter, then that might cause problems for users that use, say, tcsh (in which case they should switch to bash >:). But I don't know, I've never used tcsh -- maybe the commands are the same.
2) Since this is in library format, if -DTIXML_USE_STL is in the compiler line, it won't be available to applications that use tinyxml.h. To that end, I've removed the -DTIXML_USE_STL thing. Instead, the Makefile generates a little header file named "tinyopt.h" that has the appropriate #define in it, and tinyxml.h now #includes that. That way, TIXML_USE_STL is available to applications. Erm... this is the simplest thing I could come up with that didn't involve using sed to replace text. There's probably a better way.
3) If TIXML_USE_STL is set, tinystr.h is not placed in the include directory. This seems like it's the right thing to do. Maybe it's not.
- JC
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+lib: ${LIBNAME}
+# Put stuff in lib & include, let user do rest.
+ -mkdir -p ${OUTLIBDIR} ${OUTINCDIR}
+ @cp -v ${LIBNAME} ${OUTLIBDIR}
+ @cp -v ${LIBHDRS} ${OUTINCDIR}
+ @echo
+ @echo "To install, copy the contents of 'lib' and 'include' to"
+ @echo "a place that you know they will be happy."
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*Sigh* liek zomg i r such a nub oh noes. After applying the above patch, make the following two modifications to the Makefile to prevent it from including xmltest.o in the compiled library :-/
Type "make lib" and out pops libtinyxml.a. Copy headers and lib from the directories it creates into your include/lib path.
I generally prefer code like this to be in library form; that way if a new version of TinyXML comes out, I don't have to make sure that I update multiple copies of the TinyXML source I have laying around; only the library.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Do with this what you will; here's a patch to the Makefile and to tinyxml.h to add a "make lib" rule for building a static library. Go into the same directory as the Makefile, copy the diff below to a file named makelib.diff, and "patch -p1 < makelib.diff" to apply. This is on tinyxml 2.5.2.
Couple of sketchy things, use your own judgement:
1) Bash script used in the Makefile. I don't know if make always uses bash/sh or if it just uses the user's current shell. If it's the latter, then that might cause problems for users that use, say, tcsh (in which case they should switch to bash >:). But I don't know, I've never used tcsh -- maybe the commands are the same.
2) Since this is in library format, if -DTIXML_USE_STL is in the compiler line, it won't be available to applications that use tinyxml.h. To that end, I've removed the -DTIXML_USE_STL thing. Instead, the Makefile generates a little header file named "tinyopt.h" that has the appropriate #define in it, and tinyxml.h now #includes that. That way, TIXML_USE_STL is available to applications. Erm... this is the simplest thing I could come up with that didn't involve using sed to replace text. There's probably a better way.
3) If TIXML_USE_STL is set, tinystr.h is not placed in the include directory. This seems like it's the right thing to do. Maybe it's not.
- JC
Diff begins on the line after this one and goes to the end of this post (crossing my fingers that it shows up correctly):
diff -ur tinyxml-2.5.2/Makefile tinyxml-2.5.2.mod/Makefile
--- tinyxml-2.5.2/Makefile Tue Sep 19 22:04:36 2006
+++ tinyxml-2.5.2.mod/Makefile Sun Feb 11 03:21:19 2007
@@ -52,14 +52,18 @@
LDFLAGS := ${LDFLAGS} -pg
endif
+OPTHDR := tinyopt.h
+LIBNAME := libtinyxml.a
+LIBHDRS := tinyxml.h ${OPTHDR} # tinystr.h included if necessary below.
+OUTLIBDIR := lib
+OUTINCDIR := include
+
#****************************************************************************
# Preprocessor directives
#****************************************************************************
-ifeq (YES, ${TINYXML_USE_STL})
- DEFS := -DTIXML_USE_STL
-else
- DEFS :=
+ifneq (YES, ${TINYXML_USE_STL})
+ LIBHDRS := ${LIBHDRS} tinystr.h
endif
#****************************************************************************
@@ -83,8 +87,18 @@
OUTPUT := xmltest
+.PHONY: all lib
+
all: ${OUTPUT}
+lib: ${LIBNAME}
+# Put stuff in lib & include, let user do rest.
+ -mkdir -p ${OUTLIBDIR} ${OUTINCDIR}
+ @cp -v ${LIBNAME} ${OUTLIBDIR}
+ @cp -v ${LIBHDRS} ${OUTINCDIR}
+ @echo
+ @echo "To install, copy the contents of 'lib' and 'include' to"
+ @echo "a place that you know they will be happy."
#****************************************************************************
# Source files
@@ -101,13 +115,35 @@
# Output
#****************************************************************************
+# Test program
${OUTPUT}: ${OBJS}
${LD} -o $@ ${LDFLAGS} ${OBJS} ${LIBS} ${EXTRA_LIBS}
+# Library
+${LIBNAME}: ${OBJS}
+ ${AR} ${LIBNAME} ${OBJS}
+ ${RANLIB} ${LIBNAME}
+
+# Option header
+${OPTHDR}:
+ @echo "Creating ${OPTHDR}..."
+ @head tinyxml.h -n 24 > ${OPTHDR} # license
+ @echo "#ifndef TINYOPT_INCLUDED" >> ${OPTHDR}
+ @echo "#define TINYOPT_INCLUDED" >> ${OPTHDR}
+ @echo "#ifdef TIXML_USE_STL" >> ${OPTHDR}
+ @echo "# undef TIXML_USE_STL" >> ${OPTHDR}
+ @echo "#endif" >> ${OPTHDR}
+ifeq (YES, ${TINYXML_USE_STL})
+ @echo "#define TIXML_USE_STL" >> ${OPTHDR}
+endif
+ @echo "#endif" >> ${OPTHDR}
+
#****************************************************************************
# common rules
#****************************************************************************
+.PHONY: dist clean depend
+
# Rules for compiling source files to object files
%.o : %.cpp
${CXX} -c ${CXXFLAGS} ${INCS} $< -o $@
@@ -119,12 +155,20 @@
bash makedistlinux
clean:
- -rm -f core ${OBJS} ${OUTPUT}
+ -rm -f core ${OBJS} ${OUTPUT} ${LIBNAME} ${OPTHDR} ${OUTLIBDIR}/${LIBNAME}
+ -for fn in ${LIBHDRS} ; do \
+ rm -f ${OUTINCDIR}/$$fn ; \
+ done
+ -for dn in ${OUTINCDIR} ${OUTLIBDIR} ; do \
+ if [ -d $$dn ] ; then \
+ rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty $$dn ; \
+ fi ; \
+ done
depend:
- #makedepend ${INCS} ${SRCS}
+# makedepend ${INCS} ${SRCS}
-tinyxml.o: tinyxml.h tinystr.h
-tinyxmlparser.o: tinyxml.h tinystr.h
-xmltest.o: tinyxml.h tinystr.h
-tinyxmlerror.o: tinyxml.h tinystr.h
+tinyxml.o: tinyxml.h tinystr.h ${OPTHDR}
+tinyxmlparser.o: tinyxml.h tinystr.h ${OPTHDR}
+xmltest.o: tinyxml.h tinystr.h ${OPTHDR}
+tinyxmlerror.o: tinyxml.h tinystr.h ${OPTHDR}
diff -ur tinyxml-2.5.2/tinyxml.h tinyxml-2.5.2.mod/tinyxml.h
--- tinyxml-2.5.2/tinyxml.h Tue Sep 19 22:04:36 2006
+++ tinyxml-2.5.2.mod/tinyxml.h Sun Feb 11 03:16:02 2007
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <assert.h>
+#include "tinyopt.h"
// Help out windows:
#if defined( _DEBUG ) && !defined( DEBUG )
diff -ur tinyxml-2.5.2/xmltest.cpp tinyxml-2.5.2.mod/xmltest.cpp
--- tinyxml-2.5.2/xmltest.cpp Tue Sep 19 22:04:36 2006
+++ tinyxml-2.5.2.mod/xmltest.cpp Sun Feb 11 03:17:20 2007
@@ -2,15 +2,6 @@
Test program for TinyXML.
*/
-
-#ifdef TIXML_USE_STL
- #include <iostream>
- #include <sstream>
- using namespace std;
-#else
- #include <stdio.h>
-#endif
-
#if defined( WIN32 ) && defined( TUNE )
#include <crtdbg.h>
_CrtMemState startMemState;
@@ -18,6 +9,12 @@
#endif
#include "tinyxml.h"
+
+#ifdef TIXML_USE_STL
+ using namespace std;
+#else
+ #include <stdio.h>
+#endif
static int gPass = 0;
static int gFail = 0;
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*Sigh* liek zomg i r such a nub oh noes. After applying the above patch, make the following two modifications to the Makefile to prevent it from including xmltest.o in the compiled library :-/
1) Replace the "Source files" section with:
#****************************************************************************
# Source files
#****************************************************************************
LIBSRCS := tinyxml.cpp tinyxmlparser.cpp tinyxmlerror.cpp tinystr.cpp
SRCS := ${LIBSRCS} xmltest.cpp
# Add on the sources for libraries
SRCS := ${SRCS}
LIBOBJS := $(addsuffix .o,$(basename ${LIBSRCS}))
OBJS := $(addsuffix .o,$(basename ${SRCS}))
2) Change the line "${LIBNAME}: ${OBJS}" to "{$LIBNAME}: ${LIBOBJS}".
:((( And change ${OBJS} -> ${LIBOBJS} in the {$AR} line as well! Forgot to mention that. That's it. I'm never using the internet -again-.
Thanks for your comments...
but I'm not really sure what specific problems you are solving?
It's a patch for building tinyxml as a library.
Type "make lib" and out pops libtinyxml.a. Copy headers and lib from the directories it creates into your include/lib path.
I generally prefer code like this to be in library form; that way if a new version of TinyXML comes out, I don't have to make sure that I update multiple copies of the TinyXML source I have laying around; only the library.
Go to http://miarn.sf.net i made that a sometime ago.
ok has someone the hole file for me??? i lost the plot
And another patch, to allow the option for creating/making a static library under linux or now: TINYXML_CREATE_LIB := YES.
The patches would be better posted in as a file attached to a new feature request in the tracker.
Thanks nonetheless.
Blessings