Custom/environment variables

[mandrav]

Custom/environment variables can now be defined per-compiler, per-project and per-target.
The changes are in CVS.

After you build C::B once, change custom variables WX_DIR and WX_CFG in project build options to point to your wxWidgets dir.

Yiannis.

[David Perfors]

I can see now that it is possible to use variables, so I set the global compiler variables and project specific variables. (WX_DIR and WX_CFG for example)
Which variable will have the highest priority?

[mandrav]

Which variable will have the highest priority?

They 're applied in this order: Global -> Project -> Target
so if you set the same variable in global vars and in target vars, target's will be the one last set.

Yiannis.

[darklordsatan]

This is just awesome mandrav, will you ever stop?  
Now if it works correctly, I think this is a helluva feature

Cheers

[tiwag]

THANKS Yiannis !

really a great feature !!!

THANKS THANKS THANKS

[rickg22]

Yiannis, when you say "in CVS", you mean in BOTH branches, right? (crosses fingers  :? )

Also, I suppose these variables are stored in a SEPARATE file, so the .cbp remains unchanged (otherwise, we'd see about 1,000 CVS commits of codeblocks.cbp :lol: )

[mandrav]

Yiannis, when you say "in CVS", you mean in BOTH branches, right? (crosses fingers  :? )

Cross them all you want
Yes, both branches.

Also, I suppose these variables are stored in a SEPARATE file, so the .cbp remains unchanged (otherwise, we'd see about 1,000 CVS commits of codeblocks.cbp :lol: )

The global (per-compiler) vars are stored in the global C::B configuration (registry for win32).
The per-project and per-target are kept in the project file of course.

Yiannis.

[rickg22]

Okay! I was just trying to figure out how this would make possible the building of both branches of codeblocks with the same global setup.

[David Perfors]

Which variable will have the highest priority?

They 're applied in this order: Global -> Project -> Target
so if you set the same variable in global vars and in target vars, target's will be the one last set.

It is strange that the Global variables are not overridden by the Project variables :roll:
I tried to compile codeblocks with the cvs projectfile (including WX_DIR var with a path that doesn't excist on my system) It couldn't compile, because the wx/ headers couldn't be found.
I added WX_DIR and WX_CFG to the Global variables and it worked...