Hi, I've spent some time over the past couple days investigating ways to improve efficiency during development. I came across the meson build system (http://mesonbuild.com/), and the time comparisons to autotools made meson seem staggeringly fast. Additionally, it seems to be quite flexible and have cross-compilation support.
A fully functional meson build system for enlightenment can now be found in my "meson" branch. My current benchmarks with it: meson: meson . build 2.05s user 0.64s system 103% cpu 2.607 total ninja 379.02s user 60.36s system 347% cpu 2:06.31 total sudo ninja install 2.36s user 0.35s system 98% cpu 2.746 total autotools: ( autoreconf -fi && ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 ) 16.46s user 2.74s system 96% cpu 19.830 total make -j16 536.93s user 145.03s system 349% cpu 3:15.22 total sudo make -j16 install 11.75s user 2.16s system 165% cpu 8.427 total As seen above, this saves me over a minute for each rebuild, and I will likely merge it into the main tree soon if no major issues are reported. Known (unfixable) issue: * If you have a configured source directory (ie. you have run ./configure), the build may error due to inclusion of conflicting headers generated from autotools and headers generated from meson. make clean will not delete these headers; they require manual deletion or maintainer-clean. To use after pulling meson branch: 1. <Install meson+ninja> 2. cd enlightenment 3. meson . build && cd build 3.5. [optional] mesonconf -D[option]=[value] (most options are now, instead of --enable-option, -Doption=true; all options listed when running mesonconf with no params) 4. ninja 5. sudo ninja install ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
