RE: Can't compile hello world with cons plus

[Steve Allan]

Someone off the list suggested I upgrade from Cons 2.2.0 to the development
version, which is currently 2.3.0.  That solved my problem.

-- Steve
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Allan [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 1:07 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Can't compile hello world with cons plus
> 
> 
> This message looks long, but the question is in the first few 
> lines, so
> please don't delete just yet :)
> 
> I'd like to convert my GNU make system to cons, but I need some of the
> features of Cons Plus.  Unfortunately, I seem to be having 
> trouble getting
> cons plus to work. When I try to build 'Hello World' with 
> cons plus, I get
> this message:
> 
>   Error: File with unknown language,
>   Error: don't know how to produce an object file from
> 'file=HASH(0x259410c)'.
> 
> Does this look familar to anyone?  The same source builds 
> fine with plain
> Cons.   My build environment is:
> 
> Win2K
> MSVC 6
> Cons 2.2.0
> Cons-Plus-0.06
> Perl 5.6.1 (activestate)
> 
> Here are the Construct files used and the actual output from 
> the compile
> commands:
> 
> #################
> # Cons Plus - Fails
> #################
> > cat ConstructP
> #/usr/bin/perl
> use Win32::TieRegistry;
> use Cons::Plus;
> Default ".";
> $env = Cons::Plus->new(
>       ENV  =>  {
>               PATH => $ENV{PATH},
>               USER => $ENV{USER},
>               LIB  => $ENV{LIB},
>               INCLUDE => $ENV{INCLUDE}
>       }
> );
> $env->Program('hello.exe', 'hello.c');
> 
> > cons -f ConstructP
> cons.bat: error in file "ConstructP":
> Error: File with unknown language,
> Error: don't know how to produce an object file from 
> 'file=HASH(0x259410c)'.
> 
> cons.bat: script errors encountered: construction aborted
> 
> ##################
> # Plain Cons - works
> ##################
> > cat Construct
> #/usr/bin/perl
> Default ".";
> $env = new cons (
>       ENV  =>  {
>               PATH => $ENV{PATH},
>               USER => $ENV{USER},
>               LIB  => $ENV{LIB},
>               INCLUDE => $ENV{INCLUDE}
>       }
> );
> 
> $env->Program('hello.exe', 'hello.c');
> > cons
> cl /nologo /c hello.c /Fohello.obj
> hello.c
> link /nologo /out:hello.exe hello.obj 
> 
> Cons looks *very* promising for our build system, but I need 
> to be able to
> redirect comilations into objdirs and I need Windows resource file
> dependencies, both of which cons plus is supposed to be able 
> to do.  Can
> someone help me figure out where I've gone wrong here?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Steve
> // WRQ has 21 years of experience providing integration software and
> // services for host-intensive environments. To learn more about our
> // Reflection and Verastream products, visit 
http://www.wrq.com/products/


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