Re: Makefile for Wingz application?

ljensen@cray.com (Laura E Jensen) writes: >We're running Wingz on SunOs. I would like to set up a makefile to >help maintain the production environment for a large Wingz application. >I have about 70 scripts and about 20 worksheets used as menus, and the >application is only going to get bigger. Here are the various options >I've considered. >2) For every script that needs compiling, have the make bring up Wingz > from the command line and run a compilation script. The catch here > is that there isn't a way to pass a parameter (say, the name of > a script) to the Wingz startup script. Not to mention that bringing > Wingz up and down could get pretty slow. I figured out a way to pass a parameter to a script, so I can help you there. Scripts can be ASCII or .scz format, but any invoked from the command line need to be .scz format, or Wingz assumes it's a worksheet. Thus "Wingz Go.scz" works fine, but "Wingz Go.txt" does not. So ... you need an ASCII script with a pattern you can use sed to replace your parameters, you will create another ASCII from this one with sed, and you need an .scz script to invoke from the command line, and the .scz script to do all the work, which is called from the ASCII script. Thus: Init.scz - run from the command line - looks like: RUN SCRIPT "Init.sct" Init.txt - which is run against sed to create Init.sct - look like: GET SCRIPT "real.scz" CALL real.scz:Startup("PARAMETER") Now, you have a shell or commands in Makefile that: sed 's/PARAMETER/$PARAMETER' Init.txt > Init.sct Wingz Init.scz Not a great solution, but it's making do for me. DISCLAIMER: I'm no Wingz/Hyperscript expert, so there could be a better way. ============================================================ Dennis J. Pimple Senior Consulting Services Engineer Informix Software Inc Denver Colorado USA dennisp@informix.com Voice:303-850-0210 Fax:303-779-4025