Trying to escape quote character in define argument for cpptasks

[Ben Pracht <bp...@nc.rr.com>]

I'm trying to pass in a macro define to the command line to define the 
level of code being used.  Something like

gcc -o objname.o source.c -DFIXLVL=\"FEB 17 2006\"

the code does something like:
static const char mszFixLvl[] = " " __FILE__ " at " FIXLVL " on " 
__DATE__ " at " __TIME__ " ";

so the value of FIXLVL must have quotes at the time preprocessing begins 
and cannot have been stripped off by ant, cpptasks, or any other thing 
in between.

I'm using cpptasks 1.0b3, ant 1.6.5.

I've tried
<defineset><define name="FIXLVL" value="&quot;FEB 17 
2006&quot;"/></defineset>

and

<compilerarg value="-D"/><compilerarg value="FIXLVL=&quot;FEB 17 
2006&quot;"/>

I've even tried defining the fix level in a property, and then using the 
property name in the defineset value, but it was too smart for that.

How can I force this thing to listen to me?

Thanks,
Ben


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Re: Trying to escape quote character in define argument for cpptasks

[Dominique Devienne <dd...@gmail.com>]

> <compilerarg value="-D"/><compilerarg value="FIXLVL=&quot;FEB 17
> 2006&quot;"/>

Shouldn't this be:

<compilerarg value="-DFIXLVL=&quot;FEB 17 2006&quot;"/>

??

> I've even tried defining the fix level in a property, and then using the
> property name in the defineset value, but it was too smart for that.
>
> How can I force this thing to listen to me?

If this doesn't work, doesn't the pre-processor support a "stringify"
command, something like #NAME, that would be the quote around it
automatically?

If not, then use a header that contains a default value, and
<replaceregex> it to whatever you want before the build, and <cc> will
do its dependency magic to recompile only the necessary files. --DD

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