Re: reading config files from C

[MJ <mafsys1234%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 30/01/2020 5:19 am, George Georgalis wrote:
> Hi, I would like to introduce configuration files to a software
> project I am supporting with build infrastructure. The C programs
> depend on quite a few libraries from different sources. As a result of
> development evolution, we have hardcoded paths in the source which
> would be better served as parameters read from configuration files, so
> the location of dependencies can be adjusted without modifying the
> code. We need this functionality for runtime as well as compile time.

(Disclaimer, I use cmake, so ignorance is bliss with make/gmake)

Can you not just change all the hardcoded paths to defines and then pass those defines to the programs via make?

I would do that with cmake, depending on environment.

Am I over-simplifying the issue?

Cheers

Mark.