I wrote:
Half of the cpp parsing/selection code is already available within hmake. I would take on the project myself, if I had time.
OK, that was a fatal statement on my part I fear.... I have hacked on the hmake code a bit today, and can now announce the first release of: cpphs 0.1 a standalone replacement for cpp, written in Haskell'98 http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/cpphs Needless to say, it doesn't do everything you would want yet. In summary, it can cope with conditionals and inclusion, but not parametrised macro expansion. This is definitely prototype code, so please try it out and report any bugs. Suggestions for a better name, and for positioning of the worker modules in the hierarchical libraries would be welcome. We can think about putting it in CVS and getting compilers to use it at a later date. Here is an excerpt from the README: USAGE ----- cpphs [ filename | -Dsym | -Dsym=val | -Ipath ]+ You can give any number of filenames on the command-line. The results are catenated on standard output. Options: -Dsym define a symbol -Dsym=val define a symbol with a specific value -Ipath add a directory to the search path for #include's There are NO symbols defined by default. Could easily be changed in the source code though. The search path is searched in order of the -I options, except that the current directory is always searched first. Features that do work: #ifdef simple conditional compilation #if the full boolean language of defined(), &&, ||, ==, etc. #elif chained conditionals #define in-line definitions (symbols only, not macros) #undef in-line revocation of definitions #include file inclusion #line line number directives Numbering of lines in the output is preserved so that any later processor can give meaningful error messages. When a file is #include'd, cpphs inserts #line directives for the same reason. Any syntax errors in cpp directives, and any failure to find a #include'd file, gives a message to standard error and halts the program. Features that don't work: #define parametrised macro definitions \ especially those that extend over several lines with line continuation characters Regards, Malcolm