On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I see there was a historical attempt to upgrade the build environment >> to gbuild which migrated some modules >> (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort), and a >> more recent attempt, Capstone 2013, to get AOO to build in Visual >> Studio. >> >> Have we chosen a final build system yet? >> >> The reason I ask is that I became quite familiar with gbuild in the >> course of migrating our unit tests to Google Test, and have already >> successfully migrated one dmake module (formula) to gbuild, so if >> there are no objections, I am going commit those changes and carry on >> migrating other modules. >> > > Go for it! When you say "migration" do you mean a COMPLETE changeover or > would we have both the dmake approach and gbuild for a time? It's important > to use a build system that has more universal acceptance in my opinion.
The ultimate goal is a complete changeover, but of course I plan to do it slowly and carefully, a module at a time, testing on all platforms before committing, and aim for the intermediate goal documented at the end of https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort/Module_Migration, which is to migrate the "late" modules building after svx first, so that a single GNU make process can then be used for them all and build.pl for them eliminated. Then, I presume, the rest of the modules can be gradually pulled into this "good" module group. > IMO, the important thing is to use gbuild and not necessarily emphasize the > Visual Studio aspect. +1. > And, THANK YOU for taking this on. Pleasure, and help is welcome ;-). >> >> Our current hybrid build.pl + dmake/gbuild system is complex, ugly, >> slow, unreliable, and hard to maintain, and I believe it's also a >> barrier of entry for new developers >> > > I think many of us would agree with this. Although, the current build.pl > does provide some nicety in its own way. > > >> (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_System_Analysis). LO has >> already migrated their build system to pure gbuild. Shouldn't we? >> >> Regards >> Damjan >> >> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” > --Lao Tzu Damjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
