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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Creating custom IDE - How does compiling actually work? (AGK & DBP)

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Sph!nx
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Posted: 8th Mar 2015 15:05
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Hey all,

I'm coding with both AppGameKit and DBP and I've been thinking about writing my own IDE that would support both. Now I understand that the compiler is a seperate exe/application, but how would I go about compiling a project from withing my own written application.

I would like to know this for both AppGameKit and DBP compilers.

Thanks in advanced!

Regards Sph!nx
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3d point in space
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Posted: 8th Mar 2015 15:21 Edited at: 8th Mar 2015 15:26
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Write a custom compiler. I wrote one last simestor for a class. You have to understand tree structures. Antlr is pretty easy to learn. I should post an example here. In antler class I built a simple command line structure that exports code for agk. I do not know if they use a similar program like antler.
write your own compiler and at each leaf node in the compiler add opengl code to do something similar to agk.

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Sph!nx
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Posted: 8th Mar 2015 15:25
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That might be a bit out of my league. Isn't there a way to execute the existing compilers (AGK and DBP) with additional exe parameters/command lines?

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Hodgey
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Posted: 8th Mar 2015 21:21
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You might have to ask Paul what the command line arguments are for AppGameKit v2 but for AppGameKit v1 (which still might apply) they were (from memory):
-agk main.agc - compile
-bct main.agc - compile and broadcast
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Sph!nx
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Posted: 8th Mar 2015 22:13
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Yes, thank you Hodgey!

I did a search before but could not find it. Now after my last search I found all the info I needed. Also for DBP.

I probable used wrong search words or made typos. I feel a bit silly now

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