Preprocessing BCC

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Heres a little something to add preprocessing to BCC, see the original post here: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=76527

Ive cleaned it up and added a simple installer for those wanting to try it out. bcc_ppc.rar

Since this patches the ORIGINAL bcc.exe, it might delete all your files, burn down your house and cause world war 3.
So use at your own risk!

Which version of and where do you get the M4 preproc from? Or am I missing something?

Thanks.

Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that.
M4 comes with MinGW+MSYS and theres no version requirement, but any preprocessor will do.

If I have MinGW installed do I already have M4? Looking at all the possible MinGW/MSYS downloads on sourceforge I think I can be forgiven for being moderately confused. :)

And, can anyone recommend any other preprocs?

You could always use GCC as a preprocessor (also comes with MinGW).

These are the files you need to get GCC and M4 btw (and a whole lot of other useful tools)
And there is a thread somewhere on this forum on how to setup MinGW properly.
MinGW-5.1.3.exe
MSYS-1.0.10.exe

I dont know of any other preprocs, but i havent realy looked either ;)