Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / March 2004

I've seen this asked but not answered:

I need to modify source code before the C++ compiler sees it, with
minimal user impact.

I see several approaches:

- Somebody said (January) that CW9 supports a new type of plugin that
can access the source between the  preprocessor and the compiler.  I
can find no reference to this anywhere in the SDK docs - is it for
real?

- Is it possible for one plugin to call another, i.e., a shim
"compiler" that would preprocess a file and then call the real
compiler to handle them? Ron, someone asked about this in December and
you said the engineers were gone for the holidays - was there an
answer that google can't find?

I've considered (but would prefer to avoid):

A perl script that processes the entire source tree on every build and
generates new source files that are added to the project. This might
actually be faster (since files could be cached) but seems messy.

Any thoughts?

Paul
<paul AT patchdance DOT com>