File creation and write from macro

[korte]

Possible?

possiblie file creation and write from masm32 macro in complilation time?

[u]

Nope.

For this task, I use "echo", get the output text and write it manually into a file.

[drizz]

something like this?

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%echo @FileCur built @Date @Time with Masm version @Version on @Environ(OS) using processor @Environ(PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER)
or with data

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szer db 9,9,"(c) drizz 2005",13,10,13,10,13,10
db "built: ",9,9,@CatStr(<!">,@SubStr(%@Date,4,2),<.>,@SubStr(%@Date,1,2),<.>,@SubStr(%@Date,7,2),<!">),9
db "with masm v",@CatStr(<!">,@SubStr(@CatStr(<%@Version>),1,1),<.>,@SubStr(@CatStr(<%@Version>),2,2),<!">),13,10
db "on:",9,9,@CatStr(<!">,@Environ(OS),<!">),13,10
db "processor:",9,@CatStr(<!">,@Environ(PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER),<!">),0

[zooba]

The first one. You can then pipe it into a separate file. I use this method for my larger libraries to automatically generate a list of prototypes or a module definition file.

Make sure you use the '/nologo' flag, otherwise you'll get the ML header in there too. Also note that ML and LINK both send errors to standard output, rather than standard error, so they'll be hidden inside the files. IF ERRORLEVEL 0 should be true (ie the following command will be run) if no errors occurred.

Cheers,

Zooba :U