We're discussing reducing the number of build-systems at the WebKit meeting tomorrow @ 10am.
Interested parties should definitely be there. Especially ones who know something about CMake (since I know nothing). :) -eric On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Patrick Gansterer <par...@paroga.com> wrote: > Hi, > > it's more than a year since the last discussion about the build system of > Apple's Windows port. In the meantime I merged most of the general changes > into the CMake files in the repository and have a working patch with a few > CMake files at [1] as written in [2]. I don't think that it is ready to > replace the existing vcproj files already, but I like to hear all points > needed to do that. > Adding CMake files for the WinCairo port (which uses the vcproj files too) > will be very easy when the Apple version has been added. > > Here some benefits to the CMake version: > 1) Shared build system: The shared files are already used by the Blackberry, > EFL and WinCE port, so only the list of platform specific files needs to be > maintained. > 2) No dependency on cygwin [3]: The CMake build system searches for the Win32 > version of the required executables (bison, gperf, flex, perl and python) > like the WinCE port does already (see [4]). > 3) Less Solution targets: Some of he current vcproj files only used for > triggering Makefiles. The vcproj generates more native vcproj files, which > e.g. allows clicking on one of the IDL files to generate the corresponding > files. > 4) Easy creation of Visual Studio 2010 project files [5]: Using CMake allows > an easy transition to other (newer) Visual Studio versions, since every > developer can choose his preferred version. > 5) It's possibe to create Makefiles: The output of the windows buildbots > shows much unwanted messages. Using Makefiles on the bots can produce cleaner > logs and take advantage of all cores when used with JOM [7]. > > Would be great if people who use the current VS Solution can give the CMake > version a try and provide some feedback about it. > > BTW: There is also a patch to switch Wx to CMake at [8], but it did not get a > positive response. > > [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72816 > [2] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-February/015831.html > [3] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48166 > [4] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WinCE#Build > [5] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53445 > [6] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-January/015815.html > [7] http://qt-project.org/wiki/jom > [8] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73100 > > -- Patrick > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
