coffIT - create obj and lib static libraries from PB source!

srod · Post by **srod** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:02 pm

28/2/2008. Bug fix.
coffIT would crash out if the linker complained with an error when compiling a source file to a .obj file. An absurd thing to do when you think about it! Doh! :roll:

Have also added an example of how to use coffIT in conjunction with POLIB to create a static .lib file from multiple object files.
coffIT version 2 will do this automatically, but in the mean time ......

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@Milan : I've included a text file along with the new example giving step by step instructions on how to recreate the .lib file etc.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:05 am

Very nice program. Thank you for adding another power-tool to PB

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srod · Post by **srod** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:43 am

29/02/2008. Update - coffIT 1.0 beta 2.
In the event of a successful compilation, coffIT generated log files will now list all external functions / symbols required by the resulting .obj or .lib file etc.
This is useful when hoping to use your resulting static library in other programming languages etc.

This is on top of the coffIT generated Purebasic import wrappers which will list all Windows libraries required by the .lib etc.

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*EDIT : you're welcome Info.

srod · Post by **srod** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:59 pm

04/03/2008. Update - coffIT 2.0 beta 1.
coffIT now offers MSCOFF .obj or MSCOFF static library (.lib) output formats.

I advise reading the relevant parts of the help manual regarding the choice of creating .obj or .lib files, because it is worth understanding how coffIT proceeds here as well as the reason why I would not necessarily suggest using .lib files!

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ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:45 pm

works fine, thank you

ps: only the ide-integration doesn't work, if there no other item!

greetings
Thomas

srod · Post by **srod** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:56 pm

ts-soft wrote:ps: only the ide-integration doesn't work, if there no other item!

greetings
Thomas

Bugger - didn't think about that! DOH!

I'll fix it now.

Thanks.

**EDIT : does this mean you're back?

srod · Post by **srod** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:00 pm

Thomas, I removed all tools from my IDE menu - restarted the IDE and coffIT integrated itself fine!

Ah, unless... Have you ever had tools added to the IDE since you last updated?

srod · Post by **srod** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:15 pm

Fixed (I think!)

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:05 pm

srod wrote: **EDIT : does this mean you're back?

Only my new PC works like a charm but i'm waiting for DSL

greetings
Thomas

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:20 pm

So to avoid missing libraries you could code this right ?

(It's a very bad example i know)

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ProcedureDLL.l  Rnd(value)
  Protected a = Random(value)  ;Here we use a command from PB's misc user library.
  ProcedureReturn a
EndProcedure 

Import "misc.lib"
 EndImport

In this specific example I guess the PB license is violated (at least when wrapping it's internal libraries) or am i wrong ?

srod · Post by **srod** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:31 pm

Well, such a static library (unlike a dll) would only be useable in a Purebasic application anyhow (because of the reliance on PB's Misc library) and so, in a sense, I don't suppose the PB licence is being broken on this occasion.

It's a fine line!

The following would be okay however since it is not a simple wrapper around the Random function:

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ProcedureDLL.l  Rnd(value) 
  Protected a = Random(value)  ;Here we use a command from PB's misc user library. 
  a + 1
  ProcedureReturn a 
EndProcedure

Again though, only useable in a PB application anyhow because of the reliance on the Misc user library which other languages have no access to.

By the way, you cannot directly import Purebasic's Misc library using the Import / EndImport commands as the library itself is embedded within the 'Misc' user library. coffIT's generated PB wrapper imports it indirectly by creating some dummy code.

srod · Post by **srod** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:11 pm

09/03/2008. Bugfix.
When creating a static .lib, coffIT (more precisely, Fasm!) would crash out if a 'Data' statement contained repeated addresses of the same procedure.

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energy · Post by **energy** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:00 pm

CoffiT reported:
Illegal Intsruction in the following Procedure:
Anyone knows why?
Thnax in forward...

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Procedure UpdateSampleDelta(nexttime.l, time.l, usecs.l, td2.l, *smplrem.Long, *smpldelta.Long) 
  ; performs 64bit (nexttime-time)*usecs/td2 And a 32.32bit addition To smpldelta:smplrem 
  !MOV Eax, [p.v_nexttime] 
  !SUB Eax, [p.v_time] 
  !MOV Ebx, [p.v_usecs] 
  !MUL Ebx 
  !MOV Ebx, [p.v_td2] 
  !DIV Ebx 
  !MOV Ecx, [p.p_smplrem] 
  !ADD [Ecx], Edx 
  !ADC Eax, 0 
  !MOV Ecx, [p.p_smpldelta] 
  !MOV [Ecx], Eax 
EndProcedure

srod · Post by **srod** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:50 pm

Works fine here.

Which version of PB are you using and are you using the latest version of coffIT?

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:13 pm

srod, I went to your website but the link for coffIT is invalid as are the links for Freeware, Tutorials, Links, EasyVENT, nxResize, nxScribe and Subclassing.