[vorbis-dev] vcomment question

Jack Moffitt jack at xiph.org
Fri Jul 12 10:33:01 PDT 2002



> >AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(vorbis-tools,1.0)
> >                             ^^^
> 
> Could you explain a little more?  I don't know enough about these tools. 
>   Is VERSION replaced in the vcomment.c source before it is compiled? 
> Otherwise, that line doesn't look like valid C.
> 
> I was hoping to compile on Windows.  I see there is a MSVC project for 
> vorbiscomment.  How does it handle this VERSION?

That line is m4 (a shell macro language).  It's in configure.in, which
gets turned into the configure script.  At a guess, I think it probably
sends gcc a -DVERSION=\"1.0\".  On windows, it's probably defined in the
project settings in a similar fashion.

jack.

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