On 11.10.2021 19:31, Rick McGuire wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:46 PM Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at > <mailto:rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at>> wrote: > > While looking through the native samples I noticed that > > * in the Windows branch there are makefiles. Are these makefiles still > needed now that we > use CMake? > > The makefiles are not used for the build, the makefiles are part of the > sample, allowing the user > to build them once they are installed on their system. Ah, I see! > > * > > > * in the Unix branch there are no statements comparable to the windows > branch that direct > the install, which might be the reason why on Unix native sample > binaries are wrongfully > placed into the bin and lib directories. Not really knowing CMake it > looks like adding the > Windows installation statements to the Unix branch would be possible? > > If it's possible for Windows, then yes it is possible for Unix as well. It > probably should be done. Will look into it. > > * If so, wouldn't it make sense to fold the native samples for Windows > and Unix and have a > single CMakeLists.txt to drive the compilation and installation of > the native samples? > > No, platform specific branches should be kept separate. What applies to one > platform doesn't > necessarily apply to the others. +1 > > * on Unix (Linux) the non native samples currently get installed to > "@/share/ooRexx" rather > than into "@/share/ooRexx/samples", where "@" would be "/usr" on > Ubuntu. Should that be > corrected? > > Probably. For Unix, this is currently defined as > this: ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME}. The doc location > variable also doesn't > appear to be defined. > > > * > > > o Also, it seems that nowadays user installed applications should > go into "/usr/local" > instead? If so, should that be corrected or is this driven by > CMake and should be left > to it therefore? > * the Unix definitions do not create/install the pdf documetnation > files; would it make > sense to install them on Unix too, if the documentation pdfs are > present? If so, where > should they be looked for and where should they be installed to on > Unix, maybe to "@/ > share/ooRexx/doc"? > > It probably would make sense to include these.
Will look into it. Thank you, Rick! ---rony
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