Apple and Sony are finishing updating our build infrastructure to Visual Studio 2022, and we are considering requiring it to build WebKit starting next week. If anyone has a reason to delay further, please let me know on this list or directly.
> On Jan 24, 2022, at 1:43 PM, Alex Christensen via webkit-dev > <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> wrote: > > Ok. We won’t raise the minimum CMake version for all of WebKit right now > then, just on Windows when we start requiring VS2022. > >> On Jan 22, 2022, at 1:44 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez via webkit-dev >> <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> wrote: >> >> On 22/01/2022 01:51, Alex Christensen via webkit-dev wrote: >>> While we’re updating things, is there any objection to updating the >>> minimum version of CMake required? Right now it is 3.12, which was >>> released in 2018. Does anyone have any limitations we should consider >>> when picking a new minimum version? >>> >> >> Yes. >> >> CMake is one of the core dependencies for GTK and WPE ports, so the >> policy of dependencies applies [1] >> >> In practical terms that means that we should support the version of >> CMake shipped by Debian 10, which is CMake 3.13 until at least 2022-08-14. >> >> However, If the purpose of raising the version is to take advantage of >> the new Visual Studio generator then I don't think raising the minimum >> version is needed. >> >> As far as I know you can take advantage of newer CMake features (like >> support for a newer generator) without needing to raise the minimum >> version required. >> >> So if you have a newer version of CMake you can simply pass the flag >> -G"Visual Studio 17 2022" (or similar). Raising the minimum version >> required of CMake is not needed to use a newer CMake generator, using it >> can be made optional for those that want (and can) use it. >> >> >> [1] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev