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From: "Kreinick, Michael H." <michael.kreinick@gs.com>
To: 'Ant Users List' <user@ant.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Using Ant to build multitarget mixed C++/Java projects
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:44:48 -0400 
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Thanks for the reply.
>*  Cpptasks was hard to learn because the documentation was less than 
>intuitive at that time.  Also, not as many people used it 
>then.  I've since figured out how it works a little more, though.
I don't know if it's better or not, but I'm not having too much trouble
figuring it out. I got a hello world app running under 2 of my compilers
without incident.
[snip]
>The last job I had required working with a complicated 
>multipart make file using two platforms.  It became very, very 
>cryptic, IMHO.
Yup. I'm trying to replace a combination of ksh, make, and perl. 
[snip]
>*  Another downside to Cpptasks, again using the latest official 
>release, is that I couldn't switch GCC compilers as easily.  
>There is no 
>apparent way to specify a compiler version in the build.xml file.  The 
>path needs to be set ahead of time.
This could be a nasty hitch. Could you do something stupid like put a dummy
dir in your path and then make a shellscript in the dummy dir from inside
Ant that just forwards to the compiler you want?
[snip]

It does look like Ant's the tool for me, but I'm still not sure how I'm
going to handle setting up the various library, compiler, and product
versions in a clean way. Right now I'm thinking about whacking something
together with a gigantic property file, and the foreach and propertyselector
Tasks from ant-contrib. Pull out the lines for each version from the
gigantic property file, and use the results. Anyone have any thoughts?

-Michael

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