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
>

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