Compiler options file

Format for storing compiler options in editable XML.

<CodeBlocks_compiler_options extends="gcc">
[...]
</CodeBlocks_compiler_options>

I am a Code::Blocks compiler options file.

extends="<id>" (optional)

• Load the corresponding options_<id>.xml file first (use if this compiler is almost the same, with only a few altered programs or added switches, for example).

<if platform="windows">
[...]
</if>
<else>
[...]
</else>

Standard if statement; contents of if block is evaluated if the if statement is true, otherwise the else block is evaluated (the else block is optional). Nesting is allowed.

platform="<os>". <os> is one of:

• windows
• macosx
• linux
• freebsd
• netbsd
• openbsd
• darwin
• solaris
• unix

<if exec="bison -h">
[...]
</if>

True if the the command exec can be run.

<if exec="C -dumpversion"
    regex="^4\.[3-9]|^[5-9]\.[0-9]"
    default="true">
[...]
</if>

If the text before the first space in exec is one of:

• C
• CPP
• LD
• LIB
• WINDRES
• MAKE

it will be replaced with the name of the corresponding executable.

True if regex matches the command's output (in this case, version number >= 4.3.0).

default is used if the command fails to execute (optional).

<Program name="C" value="mingw32-gcc.exe"/>

Give the name of an executable

name="<prog>". <prog> is one of:

• C
• CPP
• LD
• DBGconfig
• LIB
• WINDRES
• MAKE

value="<exec>" (actual name of the executable).

<Switch name="includeDirs" value="-I"/>

Switches controlling compiler constants.

name="<opt>". <opt> is one of:

• includeDirs
• libDirs
• linkLibs
• defines
• genericSwitch
• objectExtension
• forceFwdSlashes. value is one of true or false
• forceLinkerUseQuotes. value is one of true or false
• forceCompilerUseQuotes. value is one of true or false
• needDependencies. value is one of true or false
• logging. value is one of:
  • default (same as full)
  • full
  • simple
  • none
• libPrefix
• libExtension
• linkerNeedsLibPrefix. value is one of true or false
• linkerNeedsLibExtension. value is one of true or false
• supportsPCH. value is one of true or false
• PCHExtension
• UseFlatObjects. value is one of true or false
• UseFullSourcePaths. value is one of true or false
• Use83Paths. value is one of true or false

<Option name="Profile code when executed"
        option="-pg"
        additionalLibs="-pg -lgmon"
        category="Profiling"
        checkAgainst="-O -O1 -O2 -O3 -Os"
        checkMessage="You have optimizations enabled. This is Not A Good Thing(tm) when producing debugging symbols..."
        supersedes="-s"
        exclusive="true"/>

Definition of a compiler flag.

• name. Human readable description of the flag.
• option. Flags to be sent to the compiler (optional).
• additionalLibs. Flags to be sent to the linker (optional).
• category. The category this flag is in (optional; defaults to "General").
• checkAgainst. Show a warning message if any of these flags are enabled (optional).
• checkMessage. Warning message to show upon conflict (optional).
• superseds. Automatically disable the list of superseded flags if this flag is enabled (optional).
• exclusive. Disable all other flags in this category if this flag is enabled. Is one of true or false (optional).

<Category name="CPU architecture tuning"
          exclusive="true">
[...]
</Category>

name="<cat>". Any flags (<Option [...] />) contained in here that lack the category attribute will be treated as category <cat>.

exclusive. Is one of true or false. Any flags (<Option [...] />) contained in here that lack the exclusive attribute will be treated as this. (Optional.)

<Common name="optimization"/>

Load options from a common file.

name="<file>"

• Loads options_common_<file>.xml (file syntax is exactly the same as this file).

<Command name="CompileObject"
         value="$compiler $options $includes -c $file -o $object"/>

Definitions for forming compiler commands.

name="<cmd>". <cmd> is one of:

• CompileObject
• GenDependencies
• CompileResource
• LinkExe
• LinkConsoleExe
• LinkDynamic
• LinkStatic
• LinkNative

<Command name="CompileObject"
         value="bison -v -d $file -o $file_dir/$file_name.parser.cc"
         ext="y"
         gen="$file_dir/$file_name.parser.cc;$file_dir/$file_name.parser.hh"/>

Additional commands can be added to each category with a file extension filter.

ext="<exts>". <exts> is a semicolon separated list of file extensions (without the leading "." period).

gen="<files>". <files> is a semicolon separated list of generated files to be further processed (optional).

<RegEx name="Info line"
       type="info"
       msg="1;2;4"
       file="2"
       line="3">
    <![CDATA[(In file) ([][{}() \t#%$~[:alnum:]&_:+/\.-]+):([0-9]+)(\.[0-9]+.*:)*]]>
</RegEx>

Definitions for regular expressions to parse compiler output.

name="<label>". <label> is the name this regex will be listed as.

type="<tp>". <tp> is one of

• normal
• warning
• error
• info

msg="<nums>". <nums> is a semicolon separated list of indices (minimum one, maximum three) for the locations of messages within the regex.

file="<num>". <num> is the index of the regex which gives the relevant file (optional).

line="<num>". <num> is the index of the regex which gives the relevant line number (optional).

The contents is the regex (use of a CDATA section is not required).

See also

• Compiler file
• [/index.php/topic,16463.0.html XML based compilers]