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.TH QFCC 1 "14 December, 2001" QuakeForge "QuakeForge Developer's Manual"
.\" Please update the above date whenever this man page is modified.
.SH NAME
qfcc \- The QuakeForge Code Compiler
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B qfcc
.RI [ options ]
.RI [ files ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBqfcc\fP compiles Ruamoko source into a form that the QuakeForge engine can
understand.
.SH OPTIONS
\fBqfcc\fP takes the following arguments:
.TP
.B \-C, \-\-code OPTION,...
Set code generation options. See \fBCODE GENERATION OPTIONS\fP for details.
.TP
.B \-c
Compile only, do not link. Can be used in either progs.src or separate
compilation modes.
.TP
.B \-D, \-\-define SYMBOL[=VAL],...
Define symbols for the preprocessor, if it is in use.
.TP
.B \-F, \-\-files
Generate files.dat. This list is created by checking the parameters to the
precache_* functions.
.TP
.B \-g
Generate debugging info. Synonym for \fB\-\-code debug\fP.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-I, \-\-include DIR,...
Add DIR to the list of directories for the preprocessor to search when looking
for include files.
.TP
.B \-L DIR
Add DIR to the search path used for -l.
.TP
.B \-l LIB
Add libLIB.a to the list of libraries to be used for resolving undefined
symbols. \fBqfcc\fP's libraries are really \fBpak\fP files of \fBqfcc\fP
object files built using the \fBpak\fP utility.
.TP
.B \-N, \-\-notice OPTION,...
Set notice options. See \fBNOTICE OPTIONS\fP for details.
.TP
.B \-o, \-\0output\-file FILE
Specify output file name.
.TP
.B \-P, \-\-progs\-src FILE
File to use instead of progs.src
.TP
.B \-p, \-\-strip\-path NUM
Strip NUM leading path elements from file names. eg. -p 3 will strip the
../../.. from ../../../src/foo.r when embedding the source file name in the
output code.
.TP
.B \-q, \-\-quiet
Inhibit some of qfcc's normal output.
.TP
.B \-r
Incremental linking. Generate a larger object file from other object files
and libraries.
.TP
.B \-S, \-\-save\-temps
Do not delete temporary files.
.TP
.B \-s, \-\-source DIR
look for progs.src in DIR instead of the current directory.
.TP
.B \-t, \-\-traditional
Use traditional QuakeC syntax, semantics and "bugs". Also implies v6only.
.TP
.B \-U, \-\-undefine SYMBOL,...
Undefine preprocessor symbols, if the preprocessor is in use.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
Show the version of qfcc.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-verbose
Display more output than usual.
.TP
.B \-W, \-\-warn OPTION,...
Set warning options. See \fBWARNING OPTIONS\fP for details.
.TP
.B \-z
Compress object files when writing them. This is especially useful when
creating libraries, especially if using the object oriented features, but can
be quite slow.
.TP
.B \-\-cpp CPPSPEC
\fBcpp\fP execution command line. See \fBCPP NAME\fP for details.
.SH "CODE GENERATION OPTIONS"
Code generation options are processed in the order of their appearance on the
command line. Unsupported options are ignored. The following options are
supported by \fBqfcc\fP's \fB\-\-code\fP argument:
.TP
.B cow
Allow assignment to initialized globals. In Quake-C and Ruamoko, a global
that has been initialized to a value is not a variable, but a named constant.
However, \fBqcc\fP never really enforced this. The \fBcow\fP option allows
\fBqfcc\fP to gracefully cope with QuakeC source that assigns values to
initialized globals in this manner. (also known as "copy on write" \(em never
mind the bovine connotations)
.TP
.B debug
Generate debug code for QuakeForge engines. The QuakeForge engine has the
ability to load line number info and other debugging information for use in
diagnosing progs crashes. This option tells \fBqfcc\fP to generate this
information. It is written to a secondary file with the extension "sym" \(em
if your output file is "progs.dat", the symbol file will be "progs.sym".
.TP
.B v6only
Restrict the compiler to only version 6 progs (original Quake/QuakeWorld)
features. This means that the compiled data file should be able to run on
older servers, as long as you have not used any QuakeForge-specific built-in
functions. Also disables some of the compiler's features (like integers and
string manipulation support).
.SH "WARNING OPTIONS"
Warning options are processed in the order of their appearance on the command
line. Unsupported options are ignored. The following options are supported by
\fBqfcc\fP's \fB\-\-warn\fP argument:
.TP
.B cow
Emit a warning when the source assigns a value to a named constant. See the
description of the \fBcow\fP code option above for a description of what this
means. 
.TP
.B undef\-function
Emit a warning when a function is called, but has not yet been defined.
.TP
.B uninited\-var
Emit a warning when a variable is read from that has not been initalized to a
value.
.TP
.B vararg\-integer
Emit a warning when a function that takes a variable number of arguments is
passed a constant of an integer type.
.TP
.B error
Promote warnings to errors.
.PP
Any of the above can be prefixed with \fBno\-\fP to negate its meaning. There
are also two special options:
.TP
.B all
Turns on all warning options except \fBerror\fP.
.TP
.B none
Turns off all warning options except \fBerror\fP.
.SH "NOTICE OPTIONS"
Notices are used to flag code constructs that may have changed semantics but
shouldn't be treated as warnings. They are also used for internal debugging
purposes, so if you see any cryptic notices, please report them as a bug
(normal notices will be fairly self explanatory).
.TP
.B none
Silences all notice messages.
.TP
.B warn
Promote notices to warnings. If warnings are being treated as errors, so will
notices.
.SH "CPP NAME"
When preprocessing source files, \fBqfcc\fP calls \fBcpp\fP (the C
preprocessor) with a configurable command line. This is useful when wishing
to use an alternative preprocessor (though it must be command line compatible
with \fBcpp\fP) and when \fBqfcc\fP has been mis-configured to call \fBcpp\fP
incorrectly for your operating system. If the latter is the case, please
report the details (operating system, detection methods, correct execution
specification). The base default execution spec (on most Linux systems) is
\fBcpp %d -o %o %i\fP.  This spec is similar in concept to a printf string.
The name of the program may be either absolute (eg /lib/\fBcpp\fP) or
relative as the PATH will be searched.  Available substitutions:
.TP
.B %d
Mainly for defines (-D, -U and -I) but %d will be replaced by all \fBcpp\fP
options that \fBqfcc\fP will be passing.
.TP
.B %o
This will be replaced by the output file path. Could be either absolute or
relative, depending on whether \fBqfcc\fP is deleting temporary files or not.
.TP
.B %i
This will be replaced by the input file path. Generally as given to \fBqfcc\fP.
.SH "FAQ"
.TP
.B Where did the name Ruamoko come from?
In Maori mythology, Ruamoko is the youngest child of Ranginui, the
Sky\-father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth\-mother. Ruamoko is the god of
volcanoes and earthquakes \fB(Quake, get it?)\fP. For more information, see
the Web site at <\fBhttp://maori.com/kmst1.htm\fP>.
.TP
.B qfcc is singing a bad 80s rap song to me. What's going on?
"ice ice baby" is QuakeForge-speak for "Internal Compiler Error". It usually
means there's a bug in qfcc, so please report it to the team.
.TP
.B qfcc is mooing at me. What's wrong with you people?
The compiler doesn't like being treated like a slab of beef. Seriously, the
code you are trying to compile is using constants as if they weren't.
Normally, qfcc would just stop and tell the code to sit in the corner for a
while, but you told it not to do that by passing the \fBcow\fP option to
\fB\-\-code\fP, so it has its revenge by mooing out a warning. Or something
like that. To disable the warning, pass \fBno-cow\fP to \fB\-\-warn\fP.
.SH "FILES"
progs.src
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR quakeforge (1), pak (1)
.SH AUTHORS
The original \fBqcc\fP program, for compiling the QuakeC language, was written
by Id Software, Inc. The members of the QuakeForge Project have modified it to
work with a new, but very similar language called \fBRuamoko\fP.