Tools or Utlities for compiling.

[gddesign]

We are under way to convert a large 3.9x Miva written system (no... not Merchant) to compiled.

Does anyone have any cool windows based utilities for executing and compiling? (free or purchase) I'm no DOS expert, but I would think someone has written some sort of cool interface for windows for this compiler...

Is Ivo still around?

Greg Mazurek

[mvmarkus]

Hey Greg,

You are back? Good to see you again!

I don't know of any real slick interface. I use the good old command-line with a little batch-script that avoids having to type the whole yadlyadlyald again and again. All there is is a single line in a text file called "c.bat":

c:\MSC\BIN\mvc.exe %1

Place that file into your c:\Windows folder, so it can be called directly.

You open cmd.exe, go to the directory with your Miva scripts, and then complile the script by typing:

c myscript.mv

That's all. Of course it would be nice to have a GUI or have this integrated into an editor, but for the time being it does the trick, too.

Hope that helps,

Markus

[netiskiv]

Hi,

I made a small program, which list the .mv files in a directory, then compare .mv and eventual .mvc to decide what should be compiled / recompiled, then list it and create a batch file for compilation.

The program doesn't execute the dos batch, which is to be run manually.
The batch is configured to return compilation messages.

Tell me if it can help.

[gddesign]

I can't belive no one's created some slick tools for the compiler...

Thanks for the tip Markus... I just use command "mvc myscript.mv". (since c:\MSC\BIN\ is in my path)

[virtualkiwi]

I'm not sure if anyone else is using Homesite as an editor (used to be Allaire, then Macromedia, Now it's been swallowed up in Adobe)
I've written a little script that means I've got a button on the toolbar I can click to compile. It does pop up a command window with the results of the compile, but I don't have to muck around on the command line to do a compile.
I'm still using a pretty ancient version of Homesite, and I don't know what other people are using, but if you want the script I can post it.