I need to repeatedly generate a Win32 DLL with a registration information function. This function uses literals to return customer specific registration information, with a separate DLL being built per customer.
I have a test version working correctly, with hard-coded information for one customer. The urgency for some sites dictates I generate some DLL’s manually, but I would like to give the client an application that dynamically emits the C source and builds a DLL on demand.
What would be the the best way to do this? I have VS 2008 C++ Express, and thus the cl.exe compiler. My current approach would simply be to have a C# application with a string constant for the C source, and before generation, replace tokens in that with required parameters, then build and link by shelling out and running cl.exe.
Define the literals as
#defines and then all you need to do is generate a header file. An automated build system will take care of the rest.