Is it possible to get all the includes into one au3 file automatically?

[topten]

I have a script with a whole bunch of includes. For some reason I need to get them into one au3 file.

Is it possible to get all the includes into one au3 file automatically?

[mLipok]

Au3stripper 

[water]

Why would that be useful?

[guinness]

Have you thought about compiling as an a3x and then including that? It would be sort of your own AutoIt compiled library.

[mLipok]

Have you thought about compiling as an a3x and then including that? It would be sort of your own AutoIt compiled library.

Already a few times I was looking for a suitable description or tutorial to what you described here.
I mean:   How to create your own AutoIt "precompiled library" with a3x file.

It is somewhere such a description ?

[guinness]

Basically don't have an entry point function, change the "compilation" from exe to a3x (can be done with Au3Wrapper directive) and include using #include with a3x extension. One thing I will say is if you use UDF functions in the a3x and then in your own code, it will of course return an error for redefining the same function twice.

[mLipok]

But If a3x is not using any UDF because it is UDF itself then no worry ?

 

[topten]

Great thanx for your comments, people

[guinness]

But If a3x is not using any UDF because it is UDF itself then no worry ?

 

So long as there are zero #includes used, then yeah no issue. Just don't choose to rename the functions as this will break your base code.

[mikell]

Is this a correct alternative way : a custom .au3 include containing  #include-once  and the wanted bunch of udf #includes ?

Edited October 5, 2015 by mikell

[jguinch]

Another idea, it's probably a bad one (do not hit me, please [:P] ):

1) Call a AutoIt compiled script (incAll.exe) before the compilation, using #AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_Before
2) IncAll.exe reads all AutoIt files in the Include directory, and put their content in an output file (includeAll.au3) - after removing all #Include lines
3) Include the generate file at the beginning of the script

For example :

IncAll.exe

If Not $CmdLine[0] Then Exit MsgBox(16, "IncludeAll error", "Syntax error")

_IncludeAll(@ScriptDir & "\" & $CmdLine[1])
If @error Then MsgBox(16, "IncludeAll error", "Unable to generate " & $sOuputFile)

Func _IncludeAll($sOuputFile)
    FileDelete($sOuputFile)
    Local $sFilename, $sContent, $sConstants, $sFuncs
    Local $sIncludeDir = RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\" & (@AutoItX64 ? "Wow6432Node\": "") & "AutoIt v3\AutoIt", "InstallDir") & "\include"
    If Not FileExists($sIncludeDir & "\*.au3") Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)

    Local $hSearch = FileFindFirstFile(  $sIncludeDir & "\*.au3")
    If $hSearch = -1 Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)

    While 1
        $sFilename = FileFindNextFile($hSearch)
        If @error Then ExitLoop
        
        $sContent = StringRegExpReplace( FileRead($sIncludeDir & "\" & $sFilename) , "(?i)(?:^|\R)\h*#Include.*", "")
        If StringInStr($sFileName, "Constants") Then
            $sConstants &= $sContent & @CRLF & @CRLF
        Else
            $sFuncs &= $sContent & @CRLF & @CRLF
        EndIf
    WEnd
    FileClose($hSearch)

    Local $hOutput = FileOpen($sOuputFile, 2)
    If $hOutput = -1 Then Return SetError(2, 0, 0)
    FileWrite($hOutput, "#Include-Once" & @CRLF & $sConstants & $sFuncs)
    FileClose($hOutput)
    
    Return 1
EndFunc

 

theScript.au3

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_Before=incAll.exe includeAll.au3

#Include "includeAll.au3"

; your code

It could work, but only for the native Includes in this state...