Setting Up MAPL Automatic Code Generator

Overview

Setting up the MAPL Automatic Code Generator (ACG), consists of three steps:

1. Create a specs file.
2. Edit source code.
3. Edit CMakeLists.txt.

Create a specs file.

To be done

Edit source code.

For each Spec in the specs file, remove:

1. the MAPL_Add...Spec call.
2. the corresponding pointer declaration.
3. the MAPL_GetPointer call.

Edit CMakeLists.txt.

In addition to creating the Specs file, you need to modify CMakeLists.txt at the GridComp and Repository levels.

Edit GridComp CMakeLists.txt.

For each GridComp, add the following block to CMakeLists.txt in the directory that contains the GridComp source file:

mapl_acg (${this}   SPECS_FILENAME
          IMPORT_SPECS EXPORT_SPECS INTERNAL_SPECS
          GET_POINTERS DECLARE_POINTERS)

replacing SPECS_FILENAME with the name of the specs file you created. If the directory contains multiple GridComp source files, add a separate block for each GridComp source file. Each block runs the ACG and generates include files for the corresponding GridComp source file.

Edit Repository CMakeLists.txt.

At the top level directory of the Repository, add the following line to CMakeLists.txt:

include(mapl_acg)