Macaulay

ANSI conversion for 1994 Macaulay code

This project is finished, unless we discover conversion bugs or want to have convert.rb handle further automatic changes.

Macaulay still crashes; when we get it running we'll update PatchFile to output a working 2022 release.

• bin/ : conversion commands
  • convert.rb : converts 1994 K&R C Macaulay source files to ANSI C
  • compare.sh : backup comparison folders to compare/
  • patchfile.sh : record new PatchFile from work/stage to source
  • today.sh : create today's notes directory
• build/ : binary and dependency files for build (not archived)
• compare/ : directory of backup comparison folders created by compare.sh
• data/ : data and log files for convert.rb
  • PatchFile : diffs used to create source/ from work/stage/
  • declarations.dump : hash saved by convert.rb
  • log.txt : verbose logging of function definition processing
  • log.c : sorted listing of function declarations
• errors/ : output of logging version of build.ninja (not archived)
• notes/ : dated notes directories
• source/ : converted Macaulay source code
• tar/ : original Macaulay sources from 1994
  • Msource.tar : source files used for conversion
• work/ : intermediate source folders for conversion
  • raw/ : original sources processed by unifdef and astyle
  • stage/ : convert.rb output, before applying PatchFile
• Mike/ : updates from Mike
• build.ninja : build file for ninja command
• configure.rb : script to create build file
  • configure.rb 1 development version
• Macaulay.code-workspace : VS Code project file

ninja commands:

• ninja build (default) : link build/Macaulay.bin
• ninja clean : rm -rf build

ninja commands (development version):

• ninja build (default) : convert, build, link as needed, save errors to errors/
• ninja convert : run convert.rb
• ninja clean : rm -rf build errors
• ninja reset : rm -rf build errors work source