On 08/11/11 12:39, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to update our build to DirectFB 1.4.14 today and > cross-compilation failed because there's a new tool in the flux > directory that needs a toolchain with C++ support. While it would not be > impossible to add C++ support for our target, I would rather like to > avoid that and I would like to understand what this tool is used for. > > As far as I can see it generates code. Is is being during the build of > DirectFB itself or is it only provided as a tool for application > developers? > > In any case the build of this tool needs to be made configurable. > Otherwise it will be impossible to integrate the DirectFB source into a > cross-compilation tool-chain. > > Could someone please shed some light on this and explain what this tool > is used for? I can try to come up with patches then.
Flux is used to generate proxy/stub code for the IPC used in the new secure fusion multi app mode. Is there really an issue with C++ or would it be enough if we get rid of the C++ lib? At the moment cross-builds work fine from tar balls as the files are already generated. But flux should be moved out of the DirectFB package to have it build as a host tool beforehand. For single app we could avoid the C++ code more easily, and even for multi app we could make a flux version that uses C only (in the generated code). -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list directfb-dev@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
