What's the purpose of hbct.hbc and when do I need to include it in hbmk2

[Steve Litt]

What's the purpose of hbct.hbc and when do I need to include it in
hbmk2?

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt

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[Angel Pais]

ct stands for Clipper Tools

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[Steve Litt]

Thanks Angel,

Is there any situation in which I need to use hbct.hbc on the hbmk2
command line while building a program?

Thanks,

SteveT


Angel Pais said on Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:50:10 -0300

[pete....@gmail.com]

Hi,

On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 01:53:02 UTC+3 sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:

Is there any situation in which I need to use hbct.hbc on the hbmk2

 

Well, `HBMK2` is a very sophisticated "make" tool for Harbour (and not only!).
Being so, this masterpiece (a great harbour-ness monolith, I must admit.. :-) )
does utilize several configuration files to do its hard work.
One of them is .hbc, which is a link-time configuration file intended to accompany 

libraries (primarily, yet not exclusively). It contains info about same-named library

(paths, switches, macros etc.) to help  hbmk2 where to find and how to use 

the library it is referred to.
So, when the `hbct` library needs to be linked (because your program calls
functions from that library) it is more effective and recommended to add hbct.hbc
instead of library name per se, in your .hbp project file or directly in command line
and let the hmk2 to exploit the directives found inside it, regarding how to link hbct.
Thankfully, we have one .hbc for every contrib library, while you can also create
one for any of your-own library(ies).
More about hbmk2 and its powerful (and quite a lot) features can be found

here (for hb3.2) and here (for hb3.4)

regards,

Pete

[fdaniele]

beautiful explanation mr. Pete
it should be published somewhere, I wish I had found it when I started :-)
Well done!

Daniele

[Steve Litt]

pete....@gmail.com said on Thu, 19 Oct 2023 23:40:20 -0700 (PDT)

>So, when the `hbct` library needs to be linked (because your program
>calls functions from that library)

Thanks Pete. You've refined my question to its essence.

So my refined question is this: Which functions and functionalities
does hbct give us?

[Mario H. Sabado]

Hi Steve,

Below link has list of functions for each available library in Harbour.

http://www.elektrosoft.it/tutorials/Harbour-Reference-Guide/harbour-functions-list-by-hbmk2.htm

Here's also a great resource forharbouri maintained by Eric:

https://harbour.wiki/

Regards,

Mario

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[Steve Litt]

Thanks Mario!


Mario H. Sabado said on Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:09:51 +0800

>https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/harbour-users/CAGuBOFp3PLLSS8MVv1--hVsCx2wdMBKoHtAoeW13%2BeS6-mzFJg%40mail.gmail.com.

[pete....@gmail.com]

On Saturday, 21 October 2023 at 09:23:34 UTC+3 sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:

So my refined question is this: Which functions and functionalities
does hbct give us?

Take a look there: https://harbour.github.io/doc/#hbct

regards,

Pete