There has been some discussion here of using the SDK tool to manage libraries, which we would store at https://github.com/emscripten-ports , but work has not started yet. Not sure how naclports work, but maybe that would be similar.
- Alon On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Marat Dukhan <[email protected]> wrote: > The changes are already in the upstream (and in the last release of BLIS), > so maintaining the source repository is not an issue. > > My concern is about ease-of-use for other users. Getting through build > docs and manually managing the paths might be a high burden for new users, > especially the ones who don't have previous experience with native > development. The difficulty of using libraries, in turn, is a big > disincentive for library devs to provide an Emscripten port. And without a > collection of easy-to-use libraries Emscripten would not get as wide > adaption as it deserves. > > What I'd like to have is an Emscripten's analog of naclports project > (which contains ports of different packages for Native Client technology). > It is fine if, at least initially, only open source packages would be > accepted, and they would need to rebuild with every toolchain update (this > is how naclports currently works). If a package manager would provide a > universal way to build and install packages, it would be of great benefit > for both Emscripten ecosystem and OSS libraries. > > Regards, > Marat > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Jukka Jylänki <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The ultimately preferable route would be to get your changes to the >> upstream BLIS repository, so people who clone the trunk from them would be >> Emscripten-ready immediately, and would have the same workflow of obtaining >> the source as with other platforms. If that's not practical, then we have >> typically maintained our own fork at github, e.g. >> https://github.com/juj/emscripten-freetype or >> https://github.com/gsathya/SDL-emscripten . >> >> There's a plan of adding external library downloads to emsdk, since it >> already implements package manager functionality, but that hasn't yet been >> implemented. Also notable is that we don't currently have a strong >> cross-compiler-version support story for precompiled binaries in >> Emscripten, and if you e.g. compiled a library with 1.21.0, and migrated to >> 1.21.1, you should recompile the code fully from sources after updating, so >> packaging up precompiled versions is generally not very useful. >> >> Perhaps having a BLIS-emscripten repository or similar with >> Emscripten-specific build README.md would be a good path? >> >> >> 2014-07-29 9:13 GMT+03:00 Marat Dukhan <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've ported BLIS library <https://github.com/flame/blis> for linear >>> algebra operations to Emscripten, and would like to make it easy to use for >>> other Emscripten users. >>> What are the best practices for library packaging and package >>> distribution for Emscripten? >>> >>> I've seen empkg project a while ago, but it doesn't seem to be >>> maintained anymore. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Marat >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/emscripten-discuss/jxlbkvWGIoE/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "emscripten-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
