RE: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

> -Original Message- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2016 11:42 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: RE: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO > > I think there are pathname parsing issues in MingW, although I don't >

Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

On 02/05/2016 10:32 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > Hi > > With the recent buildbot saga and Patricia's Windows building nightmare, a > number of serious issues were highlighted which got me thinking about how > our build system could be improved. > > The problems with building AOO were

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RE: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

Thanks Fernando, GYP does look interesting, at a high level. I notice it is hosted at Google and not completely spun out as an open-source project. Still ... There is an interesting mention of GYP use of Ninja in hybrid projects, with an apparently-extraordinary improvement in [incremental]

RE: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

I think there are pathname parsing issues in MingW, although I don't think anything is as contorted as with cygWin. These usually arise because of the shell being used, that then leads them to rewrite command lines when calling a native utility. It seems that is the top of the slippery slope.

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Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

Hi again; Some answers, although this all classifies as "musings" ;). To damjan: > AFAIK all make utilities suffer from the recursive make problem, the > only way gbuild didn't is by using the eval feature in GNU make, and > it still left a lot to be desired. Concerning FreeBSD's make,

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Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

I agree that an IDE is important - for development. Building the whole of AOO in an IDE seems impractical and awkward. Eclipse CDT already works well as an IDE on all platforms ( https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice_and_Eclipse) and doesn't need any special project files generated; with

Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

The linked page includes a reference for a Video on migrating a large C++ codebase, and a training course whose topics include creating multiple versions for multiple platforms. That all looks encouraging. On 2/6/2016 4:11 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: Hi Damjan, Have you looked at Gradle for C/C++

Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

On 2/6/16, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GYP_(software) > > BSD license, written in Python, used by Chrpmium so Windows should be > supported too. > > If it doesn't help, sorry about that... just wanted to add my $0.02 > FC I meant Chromium. Sorry

Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

Hi Damjan, Have you looked at Gradle for C/C++ ? I don't have experience with it for C/C++or codebases of this size, but using it for Java and Groovy it is pretty simple and powerful. It's also Apache licensed :) [1] http://gradle.org/getting-started-native/ Thanks, Carl

Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

On 2/5/16, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hi Patricia .. good point about IDE's. > > We have a dilemma here: > > On one side ~80% of our users are Windows-based so it would certainly > be ideal to use an environment where we keep both our users and our > developers in sync. Unfortunately