The cpptasks part of the ant-contrib package works very well to do
what you need, if your needs fit within its limitations. Otherwise,
you may need to consider alternatives.
I am using Ant for C/C++ compiles, but had to invoke the compiler and
linker commands myself with <apply>, looping through my fileset and
doing my logging with other ant-contrib tasks, and this can make it
harder to get the detailed build auditing logs you might
want. Listing compiler error messages is a challenge.
I chose Ant instead of make because I found it easier to configure
the necessary infrastructure on the over-half-dozen different
platforms and architectures for my multiplatform builds. But
cpptasks was a disappointment because it does not support all of the
compilers I needed to use, and it does not allow you to specify the
path to the compiler (must be configured in your environment
instead). In particular, it could not distinguish properly between
the CC and cc compilers on Solaris, and xlC and cc on AIX,
distinctions that are critical for me. And I had trouble separating
the compiles and links into separate tasks.
I'm told that it's "simple" to add more compilers to cpptasks, but
that was just one too many more barriers to getting the multiplatform
configurations all working, and I went with the <apply> solution
instead. I'm pretty happy with how it works but wish cpptasks
out-of-the-box had been up to my needs.
At 10:47 AM 8/26/2009, Robin Parker wrote:
Hi all,
We have an application written in C/C++ (no java) that is currently
built using recursive clearmake, the source being stored in Rational
ClearCase. The build process currently tries to build parts of the
application several times and so it needs an overhaul.
There are currently two opinions on the table for this; rewrite the
makefiles and continue using clearmake or use ant (and cpptasks).
What are everyones thoughts here?
Are there any advantages to using Ant in this type of environment?
If we use ant will we retain the same level of build auditing and
configuration records?
Does ant support parallel/distributed builds? (ok, maybe I should
rtfm for this one)
Thanks in advance,
Robin
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