EDL Language Reference - Preamble Section

PREAMBLE - Synopsis

The project preamble specifies the basic attributes of the project, for example its name, working directory and author.

Components

project_name: str - The name of the project.
working_directory: str - optional - Specifies the working directory of the project. This directory contains all the relevent files for the project including icons and simulation code. By default, the working directory is the directory which the .edl file is picked from.
project_author: str - optional - The name of the author of the project.
ver: int - optional - The current version of the project.
description: str - optional - A string describing an aspect of the project.
compiler: str - optional - The command to compile each entity. By default, g++ is used.
link: str - optional - The command to link all entities together. By default, g++ is used. This line can be useful to add to differentiate the compilation and linking commands.
library: str - optional - Additional options to link external libraries. While extern is used to link external .o files, library can be used to link libraries (.a, .so) (e.g. "-ldistribj -L${HASEDIR}/distributions").
extern: str - optional - The name of a library (.c,.h) used by the project. The .c file will be compiled and the resulting .o file will be linked to the project. The .h file should be included in the $class_includes section of the hase files which used that library.

Example

PREAMBLE (

NAME "tomasulo"
AUTHOR "R.N. Ibbett"
VERSION 1.2
DESCRIPTION "The Tomasulo's algorithm"
EXTERN pow

)



PROJECT(

	    
	    
	    PREAMBLE(
			 
			 NAME "project_name"

			 DIRECTORY "working_directory"

			 AUTHOR "project_author"

			 VERSION ver

			 DESCRIPTION "project_description"

			 
			 COMPILER "compiler_name"

			 LINK "linker_name"

			 LIBRARY "library_options"

			 EXTERN lib1, ...
			       
			 )

      PARAMLIB(parameter, ...)

      GLOBALS(reference_parameter, ...)

      ENTITYLIB(
         entity_definition | higher_entity_definition | 
         mesh_entity | abstract_entity, ...)

      STRUCTURE(architecture_entity | communication_channel , ... )
   
)