Alternative C preprocessor

[platon]

If you wish for some reason not to use (Open) Watcom for prepocessing Fallout2 ssl-files you can simply use gcc. I've tested Bloodshed's Dev-C++ (version 4, using mingw) and it works just fine. All you need can be found at http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html (those new v5 betas seem to cause problems for someones so I recommend version 4) size~7.5Mb.

And for examaple (command line):

gcc -E -x c -P -C script.ssl >script.abc
(and then compile it with fallout2 compiler...)

More info: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/cpre.html

 

[Shadowbird]

Why wouldn't you want to use WatCom? It's only 800KB (compiler/preprocessor only, zipped), and BIS used them, AND OpenWatcom just released the same version as they were using. How much closer to original scripting can you get?
(I'm not denying other preprocessors, but if you have neither WatCom nor GCC, why would you go for GCC instead of WatCom?)

 

[platon]

It was just said that the others might work, and I just checked that those make exactly the same as watcom.

No good reason, goodbye.