RE: Installing 3rd party files w/o knowing all dependencies

[Kolarik, Tony]

Ok, with the Default/InstallAs combination @EXTLIBS below get copied, but
only as required for linking. The @EXTBINS don't get copied at all, at least
not with a random cons command line target.  I had hoped that Default was
saving all these targets and would then InstallAs() them since they were
default targets.  Anything obviously wrong here?  

There must be some way to just copy a bunch of files if they don't exist -
other than a system() call I mean.  It looks pretty nasty starting each run
of cons with a bunch of lines like the following!

xcopy D:\p4\cons\export\release\bin\ace.dll
D:\p4\cons\ExtTools\ACE\lib\ace.dll  /s/d/i
xcopy D:\p4\cons\export\release\bin\xmlparse.dll
D:\p4\cons\ExtTools\expat\bin\Release\xmlparse.dll  /s/d/i
xcopy D:\p4\cons\export\release\bin\xmltok.dll
D:\p4\cons\ExtTools\expat\bin\Release\xmltok.dll  /s/d/i

Thanks,
  -- Tony K.

# in Construct...
if ($BUILDTYPE eq 'release') {
   @EXTBINS= qw(
      ExtTools/rwrelease/lib/tls7012d.dll 
      ExtTools/ACE/lib/ace.dll                                         
      ExtTools/expat/bin/Release/xmlparse.dll                             
      ExtTools/expat/bin/Release/xmltok.dll                               
      ExtTools/smartheap/bin/shsmp.dll                                      
      ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/itcl31.dll                               
      ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/tcl82.dll                                
      ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/tclpip82.dll                             
      ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/blt24.dll                                
      ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/itclsh31.dll                             
      ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/itk31.dll                                
      ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/tk82.dll                                 
      ExtTools/Xerces/Build/Win32/VC6/Release/xerces-c_1_1.dll   
      ExtTools/microsoft/rtl/vc/release/MSVCRT.DLL                        
      ExtTools/microsoft/rtl/vc/release/MSVCIRT.DLL                       
      ExtTools/microsoft/rtl/vc/release/MSVCP60.DLL                       
      );
   
   @EXTLIBS = qw(
      ExtTools/rwrelease/lib/tls12d.lib   
      ExtTools/ACE/lib/ace.lib                                         
      ExtTools/expat/lib/Release/xmlparse.lib                             
      ExtTools/expat/lib/Release/xmltok.lib                               
      ExtTools/zlib/lib/Release/zlib.lib                                   
      ExtTools/smartheap/msvc/shdsmpmt.lib                                  
      ExtTools/tcl/lib/Release/tcl82r.lib                               
      ExtTools/Xerces/Build/Win32/VC6/Release/xerces-c_1.lib     
      ExtTools/Xerces/Build/Win32/VC6/Release/xerces-c_1.exp     
      ExtTools/CppUnit/ms/culib/release/culib.lib               
      );

   for $src (@EXTLIBS) {
      my $target = "$LIB" . substr( $src, rindex($src, '/'));
      print "target: $target\t src: $src\n";
      $CONS->InstallAs($target, $src);
      Default($target);
   }

   for $src (@EXTBINS) {
      my $target = "$BIN" . substr( $src, rindex($src, '/'));
      print "target: $target\t src: $src\n";
      $CONS->InstallAs($target, $src);
      Default($target);
   }
}

Screen dump... 

D:\p4\cons>perl  cons export\release\bin\AeEngine.dll
target: #export/release/lib/tls12d.lib   src:
ExtTools/rwrelease/lib/tls12d.lib
target: #export/release/lib/ace.lib      src: ExtTools/ACE/lib/ace.lib
target: #export/release/lib/xmlparse.lib         src:
ExtTools/expat/lib/Release/xmlparse.lib
target: #export/release/lib/xmltok.lib   src:
ExtTools/expat/lib/Release/xmltok.lib
target: #export/release/lib/zlib.lib     src:
ExtTools/zlib/lib/Release/zlib.lib
target: #export/release/lib/shdsmpmt.lib         src:
ExtTools/smartheap/msvc/shdsmpmt.lib
target: #export/release/lib/tcl82r.lib   src:
ExtTools/tcl/lib/Release/tcl82r.lib
target: #export/release/lib/xerces-c_1.lib       src:
ExtTools/Xerces/Build/Win32/VC6/Release/xerces-c_1.lib
target: #export/release/lib/xerces-c_1.exp       src:
ExtTools/Xerces/Build/Win32/VC6/Release/xerces-c_1.exp
target: #export/release/lib/culib.lib    src:
ExtTools/CppUnit/ms/culib/release/culib.lib
target: #export/release/bin/tls7012d.dll         src:
ExtTools/rwrelease/lib/tls7012d.dll
target: #export/release/bin/ace.dll      src: ExtTools/ACE/lib/ace.dll
target: #export/release/bin/xmlparse.dll         src:
ExtTools/expat/bin/Release/xmlparse.dll
target: #export/release/bin/xmltok.dll   src:
ExtTools/expat/bin/Release/xmltok.dll
target: #export/release/bin/shsmp.dll    src:
ExtTools/smartheap/bin/shsmp.dll
target: #export/release/bin/itcl31.dll   src:
ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/itcl31.dll
target: #export/release/bin/tcl82.dll    src:
ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/tcl82.dll
target: #export/release/bin/tclpip82.dll         src:
ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/tclpip82.dll
target: #export/release/bin/blt24.dll    src:
ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/blt24.dll
target: #export/release/bin/itclsh31.dll         src:
ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/itclsh31.dll
target: #export/release/bin/itk31.dll    src:
ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/itk31.dll
target: #export/release/bin/tk82.dll     src:
ExtTools/tcl/bin/Release/tk82.dll
target: #export/release/bin/xerces-c_1_1.dll     src:
ExtTools/Xerces/Build/Win32/VC6/Release/xerces-c_1_1.dll
target: #export/release/bin/MSVCRT.DLL   src:
ExtTools/microsoft/rtl/vc/release/MSVCRT.DLL
target: #export/release/bin/MSVCIRT.DLL  src:
ExtTools/microsoft/rtl/vc/release/MSVCIRT.DLL
target: #export/release/bin/MSVCP60.DLL  src:
ExtTools/microsoft/rtl/vc/release/MSVCP60.DLL
cons: "export\release\bin\AeEngine.dll" is up-to-date.