HLCC

A Hashlink tool to compile hlc output

Configuration

• It expect for Haxe and hl.exe to be available from path
• It expects for %HASHLINK_BIN% and %HASHLINK% to be set to hl.exe location (hdlls) and include folder respectively.
• It expects for vcvarsall.bat being available from path, or via %VS100COMNTOOLS% as ../../VC/vcvarsall.bat (VS110, 120 and 140 checked as well)
• It assumes windows is modern enough to have a where available.

Compilation

• You need my fork of hxml library to compile the executable, also library name should be hxml_parser and not hxml because Haxe did not like that name for some reason.
• Hashlink version at least 1.6
• run haxe build.hxml
• run hl hlcc.hl -j bin/hlc.json to generate .exe file.

Usage

hlcc [options]
hlcc -h for available options
Doing hlcc [options] <path-to-hlc.json> should also work

A bit more detailed

HXML-based

• Make sure your hxml file contains generation of C source with -hl path/to/sources.c
• Run hlcc your-hxml-file.hxml to compile app.

Json-based

• Compile your application into C sources
• Navigate to output folder.
• Run hlcc hlc.json

Current status

• Windows only
• Probably does not work with HXML
• Configuration is kinda icky.
• Generates and calls temporary batch files.
• No input/output fine-tuning
• Tested only on Hashlink 1.6, generated hlc.json version 4000

License

This work is realeased under public domain.