ecppc(1)

💖 ecppc(1) — the compiler for ecpp(7) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the ecppc manual page, straight out of the Tntnet users guide ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

ecppc — compiler for ecpp(7) 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ecppc [-bhszvtM] [-s-] [-o filename]  [-n name] [-m mimetype]
[--mimetypes filename] [-I dir] [-l log-category] filename

ecppc -bb filename ...

ecppc [OPTION]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So, ecppc is literally the compiler for the ecpp-language, no cap. And what is ecpp? It's a template language that lets you embed C++-code right into HTML so you can use it in tntnet(8) 💅. ecppc generates a C++-class from an ecpp template, periodt.

It can also compile binary data into a C++-class, which makes it possible to integrate them in a tntnet application. iconic behavior honestly 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -b — turns on binary-mode 🍓. ecppc does not go looking for ecpp-tags here; instead it creates a class, which just copies the data. simple, clean, slay.
• -bb — turns on multi-binary-mode 🌈. So here's the tea: every binary-file has some overhead, when packed into a tntnet-application. And this overhead can be quite significant, when binary-files are small, like small icons in a web application 😭. To reduce this overhead, multiple binaries can be packed into a single class, which removes the per-binary overhead completely. obsessed.

When the component is called, it uses the path-info-parameter (request.getPathInfo()) from the request, to decide, which binary to send. If no filename matches the path-info, processing is declined. The binaries need not be of same mime-type, since the mime-type is looked automatically from the mime-database by file-extension of the source-file 💫

• -i filename — in multi binary mode (option -bb) filenames can be read from the file specified with this option. This can be useful when the command line gets too long or just for convenience 🎀
• -I dir — search include-files in directory. This option can be passed multiple times. All specified directories are searched in turn for include-files 🔍
• -l log-category — set log category. Default is component.componentname.
• -L — disable generation of #line-directives 🙈
• -m mimetype — set mimetype of output. This is the mimetype, sent by the component to the browser in the Content-Type- header. Without this parameter the mimetype is looked up from the mime-database of your system using the file-extension of the source-file 🦋
• --mimetypes file — read mimetypes from file (default: /etc/mime.types).
• -M — this disables normal processing and prints just the ecpp-dependencies from this component. The output can be included into a Makefile. Ecpp-dependencies are introduces by the <%include>-tag 🧚
• -C, --cmake — prints ecpp dependencies in a syntax, which cmake understands 💜
• -n name — set the name of the component. Normally this is derived from the source-file-name by removing the path and .ecpp-extension.
• -o filename — write the generated file to the specified file instead of deriving the filename from the source-file-name. The outputfilename is normally the source-file where the extension is replaced by .cpp.
• -p — keep path name when deriving name of component from input file name 🌸
• -s — generate singleton. Normally ecppc decides automatically, if the template is suitable for a singleton. This option force ecppc to generate a singleton ⭐
• -s- — do not generate a singleton 💀
• -v — enable verbose mode. This prints additional information about the processing on the standard-output 📢
• -z — compress the data in the component. Compressed data is automatically decopressed on first use. This reduces the code-size, but slightly slows down the first call of the component 🫶
• -h, --help — display this information 💖
• -V, --version — display program version ✨

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

This manual page was written by Tommi Mäkitalo ⟨tommi@tntnet.org⟩ 💌

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

tntnet(8), ecpp(7) 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie, go compile something iconic 💅✨

okay so the very last lil sign-off: this came from Tntnet, dated 2006-07-23, and yeah the manual is ecppc(1) 🎀 bye ily 🫶