The way I have seen libreoffice do this is they have an ftp server that
downloads the necessary stuff to ones system before starting compilation.
Couldnt we do the same with the dependencies regardless of the platform?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Tobias Doerffel <[email protected]
> wrote:
> Again, it wouldn't change *anything* even if we would add Qt project
> files and/or bundle the sources of the about 10-15 external libraries.
> These libraries all are independent projects which still need to be
> built for the target platform using their individual and specific
> build system (some use autotools, some CMake, some a custom configure
> script, some a Makefile only, ....). Like for any platform, someone
> needs to take care of building these libraries individually (that's
> where MacPorts jumps in) for the target platform. On Linux, we can
> simply install these libraries. If it wouldn't be for my private PPA
> with cross-compiled MinGW packages, building LMMS for Windows would be
> a mess too.
>
> Once the deps on the target platform are available, building LMMS with
> CMake is absolutely no problem (you can even generate program bundles
> using CPack).
>
> Toby
>
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