Hi Anton, good move indeed!
I think you should mention that "CMake 2.8 or higher is required". Correct? Cheers, Klaus On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:30:07 AM Anton Gladky wrote: > Dear users and developers, > > if you looked after my last commits, you have probably payed attention > on changes in cmake-build. Cmake is a cross-platform, open-source system > widely used today for many open-source projects to handle build-process. > > I am going to replace scons build-system, which is used in yade last > several years. The reason is to escape complicated and "hacked" > style of SConstruct-files in the project, which is hard to maintain. > > CMake should prolong the life of yade without any changes from the > "build-side". Also we will hopefully get better portability of the program > on > different platforms. > > I want to ask everybody to test precisely the new build-system before we > drop scons-files. > > Cmake is working differently, other than scons. It builds its files > not in the same > folder, where is the source. So, you have to create a separate > "build-place" for you. Like in scons, you should point the place, where > the files will be installed. > > 1. Create a build place (a folder) > > 2. go into that folder > > 3. run in command line: > cmake -DINSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/installfolder /path/to/sources > > 4. Read, what is the written at the end of configure-process. You will > see there, > which yade-modules are enabled and disabled. > If you want to enable/disable some modules, you should add to cmake > command line the following variables: > -DENABLE_GUI=ON (or OFF) > -DENABLE_VTK=ON (or OFF) > -DENABLE_OPENMP=ON (or OFF) > -DENABLE_GTS=ON (or OFF) > -DENABLE_GL2PS=ON (or OFF) > > All modules are ON by default. But if you do not have necessary > packages in your > system, some of them will be disabled by CMAKE. You will get a > notice about that. > > Other parameters: > -DDEBUG=ON (OFF by default) create debug-build > -DSUFFIX=MYVERSION (by default - git revision) create suffix > -DNOSUFFIX=ON (OFF by default) do not create suffix for yade > (like yade-git-1234565) > -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON (OFF by default) show an additional > info during build > > 5. Type in command line > make > > And wait, when the process is finished. Alternatively you can > indicate how much cores, > you want to use. For example: > make -j4 > > Please, pay attention, yade requires approximately 2GB RAM/core. > > 6. Install: > make install > > For GUI-option on Debian/Ubuntu-systems, please install 2 additional > packages: sudo apt-get install libxmu-dev libxi-dev > > I have disabled chunkSize option for the moment. Yade has always > problems with a huge consumption > of RAM (especially on build-servers) during the compilation. > > I would like to ask everybody to test it and give a feedback. > > Cheers. > > Anton > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
