Tom,
I looked to your script you handed over to Jeff, very complete. Not tried
yet, because I am familiar/new to svn and looking for a download location of
the latest trunk tarball.
That is the way to go. Not using, at least for me, "old-fashioned" make
files, and able to make good use off all the nice/handy tools in Visual
Studio. This gives our audience the ability to use Visual Studio where it is
meant for, it has for distributors and developers quite a few good tools
and it is easy to set config (options) and editing the source files. It
looks for me not that difficult for a Bot to use this direction instead the
make file direction, which I hope the ASF is doing so.
I noticed that zlib, libxml2 and others who are using cmake, also include
in their source the VC9|VC10|Vc11 vcxproj files (no dsp), there must be
reason they do that. So maybe can also ASF skip the whole VC6 thingy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Donovan
Sent: Tuesday, 3 September, 2013 22:41
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: will anyone build httpd/apr with cmake on Windows?
On 09/03/2013 05:06 AM, Steffen wrote:
On 8/30/2013 5:25 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote:
Please let me know if you
* are waiting for some certain feature (other than near perfection)
before
you use it
After some days puzzling, I realize now that it looks like you want to
accomplish an ASF Buildbot for Windows, like the buildbot that currently
builds on multiple *nix OSs, can be very useful for the ASF. If you would
have made that clear in the beginning, I might not of spoke much, that may
have been said earlier and I missed it.
I like to see on top of that a more user/admin friendly way, which is a
more in line with the current system and should more easy to
migrate/understand for them and should not so complex for a general
user/admin.
I was thinking:
Dependencies still in httpd/srclib (I understood that Tom D advises this)
and build manually, like now, pcre, libxml2, openssl, zlib, lua etc.
And then a command line like:
CMAKE -G "NMake Makefiles" \ -DBUILDTYPE=Rel|Debug|..| \
-DINSTDIR=Path \
-DSOLUTION=|Buildbin|Buildall|Installbin| \
-DDBLIST=|..|..|
note: Plus the current options: PORT SSLPORT DOMAINNAME SERVERNAME
SERVERNAME (not defined use defaults)
And then to build:
NMAKE
Steffen
ps.
Still no able to build with your current cmake files, errors that
apr/include is not correct. Asked Tom D for help.
Steffen,
I think you have shown us the underlying misunderstanding here. I guess
what you expected (and what
I started building last spring) was a CMake build system that did, at a
minimum, this:
* after building the prerequisite libraries,
generate a single MSVC solution file for either vc9, vc10, or vc11
(and soon vc12)
* this solution would build httpd & apr in a single pass in MS Visual Studio
(and for versions 2.4 and earlier, also build apr-util and apr-iconv)
* this solution would have an install project which:
* creates a directory and installs a complete working httpd system into
it
* can safely be re-installed to the same location (doesn't clobber .conf
files, etc.)
* does not install any files which do not belong in an httpd system
(i.e. no header or lib files from prerequisites, etc.)
I was pleased that Makefiles are a free byproduct of using CMake because,
like Jeff, I almost always
use automated builds and Makefiles whenever I can. I use the GUI for
profiling and debugging. I
did not, however, consider myself to be the "target audience" for this CMake
effort.
I think that Jeff has a different goal altogether. Since I never followed
up on my CMake efforts,
and Jeff took the lead here - this project will just need to go with his
decisions, rather than my
assumptions and yours. Like you, I'm disappointed; but those who do the
actual work (i.e. Jeff)
get to make the actual decisions (i.e. BuildBot vs. users' expectations).
Jeff - I haven't got your CMake build to work yet; and I confess that once I
realized we had such a
different idea of the end result, my enthusiasm has waned. Nevertheless,
I'll make some time to
continue to try - probably next weekend - and let you know how I fare with
it.
Regards,
-tom-
