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<!-- Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc. --> <!-- This material may be distributed only subject to the terms --> <!-- and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 --> <!-- or later (the latest version is presently available at --> <!-- http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). --> <!-- Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any --> <!-- standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior --> <!-- permission is obtained from the copyright holder. --> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Configuration Header File Generation</TITLE ><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The eCos Component Writer's Guide" HREF="cdl-guide.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="The Build Process" HREF="build.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="The Build Process" HREF="build.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Building eCos" HREF="build.make.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >eCos</SPAN > Component Writer's Guide</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="build.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 4. The Build Process</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="build.make.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="BUILD.HEADERS">Configuration Header File Generation</H1 ><P >Configuration options can affect a build in two main ways. First, enabling a configuration option or other <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >CDL</SPAN > entity can result in various files being built and added to a library, thus providing functionality to the application code. However this mechanism can only operate at a rather coarse grain, at the level of entire source files. Hence the component framework also generates configuration header files containing mainly C preprocessor <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > directives. Package source code can then <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#include</TT > the appropriate header files and use <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#if</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#ifdef</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#ifndef</TT > directives to adapt accordingly. In this way configuration options can be used to enable or disable entire functions within a source file or just a single line, whichever is appropriate.</P ><P >The configuration header files end up in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >include/pkgconf</TT > subdirectory of the install tree. There will be one header file for the system as a whole, <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT >, and there will be additional header files for each package, for example <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/kernel.h</TT >. The header files are generated when creating or updating the build and install trees, which needs to happen after every change to the configuration.</P ><P >The component framework processes each package in the configuration one at a time. The exact order in which the packages are processed is not defined, so the order in which <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > will end up in the global <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT > header may vary. However for any given configuration the order should remain consistent until packages are added to or removed from the system. This avoids unnecessary changes to the global header file and hence unnecessary rebuilds of the packages and of application code because of header file dependency handling.</P ><P >Within a given package the various components, options and interfaces will be processed in the order in which they were defined in the corresponding <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >CDL</SPAN > scripts. Typically the data in the configuration headers consists only of a sequence of <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > so the order in which these are generated is irrelevant, but some properties such as <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_proc</SPAN > can be used to add arbitrary data to a configuration header and hence there may be dependencies on the order. It should be noted that re-parenting an option below some other package has no effect on which header file will contain the corresponding <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT >: the preprocessor directives will always end up in the header file for the package that defines the option, or in the global configuration header.</P ><P >There are six properties which affect the process of generating header files: <A HREF="ref.define-header.html" ><SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_header</SPAN ></A >, <A HREF="ref.no-define.html" ><SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >no_define</SPAN ></A >, <A HREF="ref.define-format.html" ><SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_format</SPAN ></A >, <A HREF="ref.define.html" ><SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define</SPAN ></A >, <A HREF="ref.if-define.html" ><SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >if_define</SPAN ></A >, and <A HREF="ref.define-proc.html" ><SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_proc</SPAN ></A >.</P ><P >The <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_header</SPAN > property can only occur in the body of a <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >cdl_package</TT > command and specifies the name of the header file which should contain the package's configuration data, for example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >cdl_package <some_package> { … define_header xyzzy.h }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Given such a <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_header</SPAN > property the component framework will use the file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/xyzzy.h</TT > for the package's configuration data. If a package does not have a <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_header</SPAN > property then a suitable file name is constructed from the package's name. This involves:</P ><P ></P ><OL TYPE="1" ><LI ><P >All characters in the package name up to and including the first underscore are removed. For example <TT CLASS="VARNAME" >CYGPKG_KERNEL</TT > is converted to <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >KERNEL</TT >, and <TT CLASS="VARNAME" >CYGPKG_HAL_ARM</TT > is converted to <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >HAL_ARM</TT >.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Any upper case letters in the resulting string will be converted to lower case, yielding e.g. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >kernel</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >hal_arm</TT >.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >A <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >.h</TT > suffix is appended, yielding e.g. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >kernel.h</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >hal_arm.h</TT >.</P ></LI ></OL ><P >Because of the naming restrictions on configuration options, this should result in a valid filename. There is a small possibility of a file name class, for example <TT CLASS="VARNAME" >CYGPKG_PLUGH</TT > and <TT CLASS="VARNAME" >CYGPKG_plugh</TT > would both end up trying to use the same header file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/plugh.h</TT >, but the use of lower case letters for package names violates the naming conventions. It is not legal to use the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_header</SPAN > property to put the configuration data for several packages in a single header file. The resulting behaviour is undefined.</P ><P >Once the name of the package's header file has been determined and the file has been opened, the various components, options and interfaces in the package will be processed starting with the package itself. The following steps are involved:</P ><P ></P ><OL TYPE="1" ><LI ><P >If the current option or other <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >CDL</SPAN > entity is inactive or disabled, the option is ignored for the purposes of header file generation. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > are only generated for options that are both active and enabled.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >The next step is to generate a default <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > for the current option. If this option has a <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >no_define</SPAN > property then the default <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > is suppressed, and processing continues for <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define</SPAN >, <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >if_define</SPAN > and <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_proc</SPAN > properties.</P ><P ></P ><OL TYPE="a" ><LI ><P >The header file appropriate for the default <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > is determined. For a <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >cdl_package</TT > this will be <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT >, for any other option this will be the package's own header file. The intention here is that packages and application code can always determine which packages are in the configuration by <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#include'ing</TT > <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT >. The C preprocessor lacks any facilities for including a header file only if it exists, and taking appropriate action otherwise.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >For options with the flavors <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >bool</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >none</TT >, a single <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > will be generated. This takes the form:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define <option> 1</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >For example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define CYGFUN_LIBC_TIME_POSIX 1</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Package source code can check whether or not an option is active and enabled by using the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#ifdef</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#ifndef</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#if defined(…)</TT >directives.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >For options with the flavors <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >data</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >booldata</TT >, either one or two <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > will be generated. The first of these may be affected by a <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_format</SPAN > property. If this property is not defined then the first <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > will take the form:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define <option> <value></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >For example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define CYGNUM_LIBC_ATEXIT_HANDLERS 32</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Package source code can examine this value using the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#if</TT > directive, or by using the symbol in code such as:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > for (i = 0; i < CYGNUM_LIBC_ATEXIT_HANDLERS; i++) { … }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >It must be noted that the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > will be generated only if the corresponding option is both active and enabled. Options with the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >data</TT > flavor are always enabled but may not be active. Code like the above should be written only if it is known that the symbol will always be defined, for example if the corresponding source file will only get built if the containing component is active and enabled. Otherwise the use of additional <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#ifdef</TT > or similar directives will be necessary.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >If there is a <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_format</SPAN > property then this controls how the option's value will appear in the header file. Given a format string such as <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >%08x</TT > and a value 42, the component framework will execute the <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl</SPAN > command <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >format %08x 42</TT > and the result will be used for the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > value. It is the responsibility of the component writer to make sure that this <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl</SPAN > command will be valid given the format string and the legal values for the option.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >In addition a second <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > may or may not be generated. This will take the form:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define <option>_<value></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >For example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define CYGNUM_LIBC_ATEXIT_HANDLERS_32</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >The <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > will be generated only if it would result in a valid C preprocessor symbol. If the value is a string such as <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >"/dev/ser0"</TT > then the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > would be suppressed. This second <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > is not particularly useful for numerical data, but can be valuable in other circumstances. For example if the legal values for an option <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >XXX_COLOR</TT > are <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >red</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >green</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >blue</TT > then code like the following can be used:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#ifdef XXX_COLOR_red … #endif #ifdef XXX_COLOR_green … #endif #ifdef XXX_COLOR_blue … #endif</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >The expression syntax provided by the C preprocessor is limited to numerical data and cannot perform string comparisons. By generating two <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > in this way it is possible to work around this limitation of the C preprocessor. However some care has to be taken: if a component writer also defined a configuration option <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >XXX_COLOR_green</TT > then there will be confusion. Since such a configuration option violates the naming conventions, the problem is unlikely to arise in practice.</P ></LI ></OL ></LI ><LI ><P >For some options it may be useful to generate one or more additional <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > or, in conjunction with the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >no_define</SPAN > property, to define a symbol with a name different from the option's name. This can be achieved with the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define</SPAN > property, which takes the following form:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > define [-file=<filename>] [-format=<format>] <symbol></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >For example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > define FOPEN_MAX</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >This will result in something like:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define FOPEN_MAX 8 #define FOPEN_MAX_8</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >The specified symbol must be a valid C preprocessor symbol. Normally the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > will end up in the same header file as the default one, in other words <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT > in the case of a <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >cdl_package</TT >, or the package's own header file for any other option. The <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >-file</TT > option can be used to change this. At present the only legal value is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >system.h</TT >, for example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > define -file=system.h <symbol></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >This will cause the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > to end up in the global configuration header rather than in the package's own header. Use of this facility should be avoided since it is very rarely necessary to make options globally visible.</P ><P >The <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define</SPAN > property takes another option, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >-format</TT >, to provide a format string.</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > define -format=%08x <symbol></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >This should only be used for options with the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >data</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >booldata</TT > flavor, and has the same effect as the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_format</SPAN > property has on the default <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT >.</P ><P ><SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define</SPAN > properties are processed in the same way the default <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT >. For options with the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >bool</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >none</TT > flavors a single <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > will be generated using the value <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >1</TT >. For options with the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >data</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >booldata</TT > flavors either one or two <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > will be generated.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >After processing all <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define</SPAN > properties, the component framework will look for any <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >if_define</SPAN > properties. These take the following form:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > if_define [-file=<filename>] <symbol1> <symbol2></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >For example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > if_define CYGSRC_KERNEL CYGDBG_USE_ASSERTS</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >The following will be generated in the configuration header file:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#ifdef CYGSRC_KERNEL # define CYGDBG_USE_ASSERTS #endif</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Typical kernel source code would begin with the following construct:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define CYGSRC_KERNEL 1 #include <pkgconf/kernel.h> #include <cyg/infra/cyg_ass.h></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >The infrastructure header file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >cyg/infra/cyg_ass.h</TT > only checks for symbols such as <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >CYGDBG_USE_ASSERTS</TT >, and has no special knowledge of the kernel or any other package. The <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >if_define</SPAN > property will only affect code that defines the symbol <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >CYGSRC_KERNEL</TT >, so typically only kernel source code. If the option is enabled then assertion support will be enabled for the kernel source code only. If the option is inactive or disabled then kernel assertions will be disabled. Assertions in other packages are not affected. Thus the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >if_define</SPAN > property allows control over assertions, tracing, and similar facilities at the level of individual packages, or at finer levels such as components or even single source files if desired.</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Note: </B >Current <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >eCos</SPAN > packages do not yet make use of this facility. Instead there is a single global configuration option <TT CLASS="VARNAME" >CYGDBG_USE_ASSERTS</TT > which is used to enable or disable assertions for all packages. This issue should be addressed in a future release of the system.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P >As with the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define</SPAN > property, the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >if_define</SPAN > property takes an option <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >-file</TT > with a single legal value <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >system.h</TT >. This allows the output to be redirected to <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT > if and when necessary. </P ></LI ><LI ><P >The final property that is relevant to configuration header file generation is <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_proc</SPAN >. This takes a single argument, a <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl</SPAN > fragment that can add arbitrary data to the global header <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT > and to the package's own header. When the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_proc</SPAN > script is invoked two variables will be set up to allow access to these headers: <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >cdl_header</TT > will be a channel to the package's own header file, for example <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/kernel.h</TT >; <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >cdl_system_header</TT > will be a channel to <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT >. A typical <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_proc</SPAN > script will use the <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl</SPAN > <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >puts</TT > command to output data to one of these channels, for example:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >cdl_option <name> { … define_proc { puts $::cdl_header "#define XXX 1" } }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Note: </B >In the current implementation the use of <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_proc</SPAN > is limited because the <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl</SPAN > script cannot access any of the configuration data. Therefore the script is limited to writing constant data to the configuration headers. This is a major limitation which will be addressed in a future release of the component framework.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></LI ></OL ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Note: </B >Generating C header files with <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > for the configuration data suffices for existing packages written in some combination of C, C++ and assembler. It can also be used in conjunction with some other languages, for example by first passing the source code through the C preprocessor and feeding the result into the appropriate compiler. In future versions of the component framework additional programming languages such as Java may be supported, and the configuration data may also be written to files in some format other than C preprocessor directives. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Note: </B >At present there is no way for application or package source code to get hold of all the configuration details related to the current hardware. Instead that information is spread over various different configuration headers for the HAL and device driver packages, with some of the information going into <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT >. It is possible that in some future release of the system there will be another global configuration header file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/hardware.h</TT > which either contains the configuration details for the various hardware-specific packages or which <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#include's</TT > all the hardware-specific configuration headers. The desirability and feasibility of such a scheme are still to be determined. To avoid future incompatibility problems as a result of any such changes, it is recommended that all hardware packages (in other packages containing the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >hardware</SPAN > property) use the <SPAN CLASS="PROPERTY" >define_header</SPAN > property to specify explicitly which configuration header should be generated.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="BUILD.HEADERS.SYSTEM.H">The <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >system.h</TT > Header</H2 ><P >Typically configuration header files are <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#include'd</TT > only by the package's source code at build time, or by a package's exported header files if the interface provided by the package may be affected by a configuration option. There should be no need for application code to know the details of individual configuration options, instead the configuration should specifically meet the needs of the application.</P ><P >There are always exceptions. Application code may want to adapt to configuration options, for example to do different things for ROM and RAM booting systems, or when it is necessary to support several different target boards. This is especially true if the code in question is really re-usable library code which has not been converted to an eCos package, and hence cannot use any CDL facilities.</P ><P >A major problem here is determining which packages are in the configuration: attempting to <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#include</TT > a header file such as <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/net.h</TT > when it is not known for certain that that particular package is part of the configuration will result in compilation errors. The global header file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >pkgconf/system.h</TT > serves to provide such information, so application code can use techniques like the following:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#include <pkgconf/system.h> #ifdef CYGPKG_NET # include <pkgconf/net.h> #endif</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >This will compile correctly irrespective of the eCos configuration, and subsequent code can use <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#ifdef</TT > or similar directives on <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >CYGPKG_NET</TT > or any of the configuration options in that package. </P ><P >In addition to determining whether or not a package is present, the global configuration header file can also be used to find out the specific version of a package that is being used. This can be useful if a more recent version exports additional functionality. It may also be necessary to adapt to incompatible changes in the exported interface or to changes in behaviour. For each package the configuration system will typically <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT > three symbols, for example for a V1.3.1 release:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define CYGNUM_NET_VERSION_MAJOR 1 #define CYGNUM_NET_VERSION_MINOR 3 #define CYGNUM_NET_VERSION_RELEASE 1</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >There are a number of problems associated with such version <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT >. The first restriction is that the package must follow the standard naming conventions, so the package name must be of the form <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >xxxPKG_yyy</TT >. The three characters immediately preceding the first underscore must be <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >PKG</TT >, and will be replaced with <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >NUM</TT > when generating the version <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT >. If a package does not follow the naming convention then no version <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > will be generated. </P ><P >Assuming the package does follow the naming conventions, the configuration tools will always generate three version <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > for the major, minor, and release numbers. The symbol names are obtained from the package name by replacing <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >PKG</TT > with <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >NUM</TT > and appending <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >_VERSION_MAJOR</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >_VERSION_MINOR</TT > and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >_VERSION_RELEASE</TT >. It is assumed that the resulting symbols will not clash with any configuration option names. The values for the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > are determined by searching the version string for sequences of digits, optionally preceded by a minus sign. It is possible that some or all of the numbers are absent in any given version string, in which case <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >-1</TT > will be used in the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define</TT >. For example, given a version string of <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >V1.12beta</TT >, the major version number is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >1</TT >, the minor number is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >12</TT >, and the release number is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >-1</TT >. Given a version string of <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >beta</TT > all three numbers would be set to <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >-1</TT >.</P ><P >There is special case code for the version <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >current</TT >, which typically corresponds to a development version obtained via anonymous CVS or similar means. The configuration system has special built-in knowledge of this version, and will assume it is more recent than any specific release number. The global configuration header defines a special symbol <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >CYGNUM_VERSION_CURRENT</TT >, and this will be used as the major version number when version <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >current</TT > of a package is used:</P ><TABLE BORDER="5" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0" WIDTH="70%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >#define CYGNUM_VERSION_CURRENT 0x7fffff00 ... #define CYGNUM_INFRA_VERSION_MAJOR CYGNUM_VERSION_CURRENT #define CYGNUM_INFRA_VERSION_MINOR -1 #define CYGNUM_INFRA_VERSION_RELEASE -1</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >The large number used for <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >CYGNUM_VERSION_CURRENT</TT > should ensure that major version comparisons work as expected, while still allowing for a small amount of arithmetic in case that proves useful. </P ><P >It should be noted that this implementation of version <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >#define's</TT > will not cope with all version number schemes. 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