Port to CMake initial commit ---------------------------- First I must thank people I was greatly inspired by: - Daniel Pfeifer: CMake introduction and best practices https://www.slideshare.net/DanielPfeifer1/cmake-48475415 - Manuel Binna: Effective Modern CMake https://gist.github.com/mbinna/c61dbb39bca0e4fb7d1f73b0d66a4fd1 - Pablo Arias: It's Time To Do CMake Right https://pabloariasal.github.io/2018/02/19/its-time-to-do-cmake-right/
I tried, in porting Xiphos build system from waf to CMake, to - provide the same features and options than waf - keep it simple (please, don't look in the mhelp dir..) - document everything - validate files (xml) - do not brake the waf build ** Features - The hassle to deal with scrollkeeper and omf files was not worth the effort, so I switched the Help from Docbook to Mallard encoding. - I had to slightly modify xiphos.appdata.xml, the current one doesn't validate. - Windows Help Files are compiled with the chmcmd utility from FPC, the Free Pascal Compiler ** Issues - You'll need biblesync 2.0.1 - I sometimes encountered build failures, an error occured during the task of validating mallard pages, due to a race condition. I think it's now fixed, but if this error happens again, run: '$ make -j1' as a workaround. - The PDF file looks ugly, the conversion tool (htmldoc) is not UTF-8 aware... - The Windows© installer doesn't install fonts and do not display RELEASE-NOTES. I still have to figure out how to do this. - The Windows Help files (.chm) need refinement. ** Final notes - I regularly run Xiphos on Fedora 27 installed from a rpm built on a daily basis with CMake. - I also run Xiphos on Debian Stretch from deb packages made by 'make packages' - But I know next to nothing about Windows©, so I can't tell you if the generated EXE files are Ok. All I know is that I was able to install and run the 32bits version in a Windows 7 VM, then download and display a Bible, Help files and a few other things. I only ran the 64bits in Wine, doing more or less similar tasks. So the EXE files may still have a programming glitch or bug or something corrupted. - See INSTALLcmake.md for building Xiphos with CMake. Dom -- domini...@corbex.org <domini...@corbex.org> _______________________________________________ xiphos-devel mailing list xiphos-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/xiphos-devel