Simple Actionscript Preprocessor

I was looking for a ’simple’ C preprocessor for actionscript. The best thing out there which is out of the box compatible with actionscript is “EnLarge” from Asual.

But even EnLarge is to complicated for me! I don’t want to make an ant build for every little thing I do. All I want is a preprocessor that takes an input folder and processes every single file to a specified output folder. So I took a peek on google and found “GPP“, which is a general-purpose preprocessor ‘almost’ perfect for my needs. Yes, ‘almost’ perfect because it’s missing some of my fundamental needs to process a folder for ex. So after some small modifications I’ve recompiled GPP to fit my needs. Download my binaries here, and get my patches for GPP 2.24 here.

GPP now supports the following syntax:
gpp.exe –source .\src_p –dest .\src –nocurinc –stdinclude .\macros

We’re using this in FlashDevelop using a shortcut key (F11) within the FlashDevelop menu, if you want this as well then copy gpp.exe to your FlashDevelop tools folder and modify MainMenu.xml with the following:

<button label="Preprocess src_p" click="RunProcess" shortcut="F11" tag="$(Quote)$(BaseDir)\Tools\gpp\gpp.exe$(Quote);--source $(Quote)$(ProjectDir)\src_p$(Quote) --dest $(Quote)$(ProjectDir)\src$(Quote) --nocurinc --stdinclude $(Quote)$(BaseDir)\Tools\gpp$(Quote)" />

Written by Sander Wichers at December 19, 2007
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2 Responses to “Simple Actionscript Preprocessor”

  1. Adam on March 22nd, 2008 05:20

    Hey do you have any documentation for this? Can you at least provide a few samples of how to use it in actionscript? Thanks!

  2. Sander Wichers on March 27th, 2008 15:31

    Adam, sorry no personal documentation. But there is a whole lot to read on the GPP website though:
    http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/GPP

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