Cross-platform Pre/Post-Build Steps

[w1ck3dg0ph3r]

Hola!
Is there a way to make pre-build script cross-platform? I've looked into attaching a build script like that:

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function SetBuildOptions(base)
{
    if (PLATFORM == PLATFORM_MSW) {
        IO.Execute(_T("blahblah.bat"));
    } else {
        IO.Execute(_T("blahblah.sh"))
    }
}
But the problem is it gets executed three times during build process. Which could be a huge bummer, given script execution time. Maybe there is a way to determine which execution it is from the script that I've missed?
Thanks in advance.

[Jenna]

You can use something like

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$if(PLATFORM == PLATFORM_MSW){ [[ print(_T("ls -l")); ]] }{ [[ print(_T("pwd")); ]] }
as pre- or post-build step.

[MortenMacFly]

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$if(PLATFORM == PLATFORM_MSW){ [[ print(_T("ls -l")); ]] }{ [[ print(_T("pwd")); ]] }

Besides the fact that ls -l is not a proper Windows command (except i.e. you have GnuWin32 installed) this is correct.

[w1ck3dg0ph3r]

Thanks, didn't knew that, could be useful.
But still, since build script is the only (am I wrong?) way to automatically build against different libs for different platforms, it would be nice to do abovementioned in build script too.

[oBFusCATed]

Have you tried to use http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Global_compiler_variables ?

[w1ck3dg0ph3r]

Have you tried to use http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Global_compiler_variables ?

Sure thing. But it doesn't cover different lib names. Anyhow, I ended up using smth like the following for now, and putting up with it being executed thrice.

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function SetBuildOptions(base)
{
    if (PLATFORM == PLATFORM_MSW)
    {
        IO.Execute(_T("qrc.bat"));

        base.AddLinkLib(_T("QtCore4"));
        base.AddLinkLib(_T("QtGui4"));
        base.AddLinkLib(_T("sqlite3"));
    }
    else if (PLATFORM == PLATFORM_GTK)
    {
        IO.Execute(_T("qrc.sh"))

        base.AddLinkLib(_T("QtCore"));
        base.AddLinkLib(_T("QtGui"));
        base.AddLinkLib(_T("sqlite3"));
    }
}

Interesting thing, though, even if attached to debug target, script getting executed when release target active. This one says "SetBuildOptions(base) is called before the project/target is built". I can assume it is called for every build target and project itself. Still maybe theres a way, that I don't know of, to tell which is the case for current execution?

[oBFusCATed]

In fact you can specify different library names. See the cflags and lflags.
You can use something like #myvar.cflags and #myvar.lflags or even you can define some user fields.
I've not tried the user fields, but I guess they should just work.