[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM internal tools: build systems

[Max Horn]

Hi folks,

today I tried to use the "create_lure" tool from the "tools"  
directory in scummvm/trunk. Sadly, I couldn't, because the provided  
build systems is inadequate -- the source files try to use stuff from  
common/, but the Makefile doesn't pass all the -D flags required for  
our headers to work (in my case, that would be at least - 
DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DUNIX -DMACOSX).

Now, I could mess around with that custom Makefile, but instead, I  
would really appreciate if all those tools were built via our main  
Makefile -- maybe even by default (i.e. add the to the "all" pseudo  
target). This would ensure the tools are easy to built on many  
systems, and we automatically "test" this way whether they compile  
correctly.

I am in the process of making that change for "create_lure". Of  
course, that turned out to be insufficient, as that tools is  
currently not quite portable :)
	const char *inFilename = (argc >= 2) ? argv[1] : "c:\\games\\lure\ 
\lure.exe";
	const char *outFilename = (argc == 3) ? argv[2] : "c:\\games\\lure\ 
\lure.dat";

but I hope this will now soon be fixed.


Cheers,
Max