Using the HTML Compiler

4.1About the HTML Compiler

The HTML Compiler is a program that creates C structures from your web page files. These C structures, in turn, become VFS files in your embedded server. The web page files can be any file you would normally put on a webserver. Files of extension .html (or .htm) and .gif are most common, but the compiler can accept any binary or text file.

In addition to simply encoding binary files into C tables, the HTML Compiler supports some optional features that are useful in building even a modest webserver. These include:

•tag compression of HTML files

•setting authorization flags on files

•creating the routine stubs and prototypes for CGI and SSI executable files.

For details on how to build the HTML Compiler, see Building the HTML Compiler on page 3-6.