On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 2:40 PM Robert Dailey <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 1:26 PM Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I think there is a use case for SVN on Android and iOS, namely native > apps to monitor repositories, view and make changes, etc. I have wished for > such an app myself and haven't found one I like. > > > > It has to be possible to build the sources without the build system. > Perhaps in an IDE project, if NDK comes with an IDE? > > > > Maybe someone who knows more about cross compiling and/or building > without './configure && make' would like to comment? I know we aren't using > this build system on Windows. > > CMake is really versatile and great for cross compiling. I see that > some repos use it (like libapr) but not subversion itself. If SVN + > all apache dependencies used CMake and it all tied together, then > cross compilation is a non-issue. The Android NDK comes with a CMake > toolchain file for this purpose. That's the only reasonable solution I > see at this point. But it means that Subversion and potentially more > dependencies need to implement CMake scripts. > I'm copying Brane because I recall some mention about CMake. Is it already being used with the Windows build? But I do not see any CMakeLists.txt file in trunk, nor a branch that looks like it's for this purpose. Is CMake being used, and if so how?
