AutoItC Reviews

4-22-2023 I looked at this project with hope of resurrecting it and possibly expanding it, but after digging into the code that seems an almost impossibility. It is amazingly well constructed and it was obviously created by a gifted programmer. Much forethought was put into this and it is sad to see it die. But unfortunately there are too many errors and missing files in the data to piece together the static library source code and without the source code the project can never be expanded. The code found here is obviously just the leftover crumbs of something more complete that had to exist at some point. Does it exist somewhere else in the bowels of the internet? If it does I can’t find it. Why was the final product never uploaded here? --- Someone with the member name “Legend” posted an interesting comment about this code. www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/179608-autoitc-compile-autoit-to-c/ At the bottom he put AutoItC.zip. Within that file is a copy of the compiled functioning static library file. Unfortunately none of the source was included. It is baffling where “Legend” got the source code to compile the library file and the parser. Or did he just find them compiled somewhere else? It’s a mystery. --- There are 3 compiles involved when trying to use this project. --- 1) It is possible to compile short autoit scripts to an exe using mingw. Download mingw-get-setup.exe. Only 4.7 seems to work. To get that particular version of mingw one must use a command line similar to: mingw-get install "gcc<4.8.*" "gcc-g++<4.8.*" I created my own bat file from info in Compiler.au3. The Autoit Compiler.exe is only fluff. I have not pushed this past very simple test scripts. Digging in the code it appears to have some graphical window support. --- 2) To compile the parser I used codeblocks 17 with built in mingw compiler. I suspect it might compile with 20 if had selected x86. All of this is x86. The resulting AutoItC-Converter.exe parser is missing the ability to take command line parameters. The one in Legend's Autoitc.zip does slightly more. So that parser source is not the final source code for that either. I do not know if it otherwise complete or not. I have my doubts. --- 3) To crunch the library into libAutoItC.a I used Codeblocks 20 have g++ follow c++ 11 iso c++ language standard –std=c++. But 2 files are missing UtilTime.cpp and UtilTime.hpp. There are also various syntax errors in the code. This is not the code that was used to create libAutoItC.a !!! --- The man who wrote this, Gunnar Bergmann, aka Marthog is obviously some kind of mad genius. Where did he put the final code? He’s out there on the internet but I have not been able to contact him. This goes back 10 years now. Does Gunnar have the goods somewhere? Does Legend?