The other thing to remember is the buildbot scripts and a bunch of build scripts on all platforms are full of assumptions about the relationships between projects and the tree. :( TVL
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Thomas Van Lenten<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Here's my christmas wish: I'd like gyp and chrome to > >> support cross-compilation, so that I could (on my Linux box) kick > >> off distcc-accelerated builds for all three platforms, each one > >> going into a separate objdir. > >> It's not as farfetched as it sounds; Mac can already be built on Linux, > I > >> hear, > >> and a Windows build on Linux is within reach (just have to remove the > >> last bits of ATL and apply some elbow grease, I think). > > > > A mac build still needs a Mac to drive it. We simply did the work to > > distribute the compiling to linux also. But the build is driven by > xcode, > > and you need a bunch of other mac tools for the scripts to be able to > > invoke. > > OK then, let's make a Mac drive all three builds :-) > > > Window is probably in a similar boat, you'd need the tools for compiling > > resources, etc. > > Those are all in. mingw32 is quite complete. > > > At the moment, each platform is generating a native for a different build > > system. > > But in the cross-compiling scenario, we'd have gyp generate makefiles > for everything. > - Dan > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
