Sharing constants across languages

Question

I have a long list of constants that I need access to in several projects which are in different languages(Verilog, C, C++ and C#). Rather than repeating them in each language, is there a good way to share these?

The only thing I could think of would be a text file and a preprocessing script? Is this the best solution or is there something easier/more elegant?

Answer 1

A preprocessing script which automatically updates those constants within your code is probably the best method. Commit the code with your project to ensure correctness and have it a part of the build script.

Answer 2

You can keep them in a XML document and write XSLT scripts for each language to generate the appropriate source files in each build.

Answer 3

Can you use your makefile (or equivalent) to define these constants? For C and C++. you can use the compiler's CLI options to define pre-processor values for the constants. I haven't done much build customization for Verilog, but I suspect something similar might exist there as well.