Where do the source files under /obj-c/target/enunciate/gen/ come from?

Question

I've been working with enunciate on my Mac. Since installing the latest version of the Xcode Command Line Tools, I get compiler errors on enunciate.m and enunciate-common.m. They're pretty basic syntax errors that I was able to solve easily by going into the /obj-c/target/enunciate/gen/obj-c/ directory and editing the offending files. So, that's not my question.

The problem is, every time I run a mvn clean install, the changes I made are thrown away. So, I'd like to find out how the enunciate.m and enunciate-common.m files are being generated, so I can fix the problems at the source. I tried to figure it out on my own, but to no avail. I'm not too experienced with Maven, so I assume I'm missing something obvious -- like are the .m files being pulled from a repository elsewhere when Maven performs the compile stage?

Answer 1

Enunciate uses Freemarker to generate all its code. The freemarker template you're interested in is api.fmt which ends up calling (among other things) common.fmt and client-enum-type.fmt where your particular compile-time problems are being generated.