[Gtk-sharp-list] Migrating to CMake?

[Martin (OPENGeoMap)]

Christian Hoff escribió:
> Martin (OPENGeoMap) schrieb:
>> hi:
>>> On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 13:37 +0200, Christian Hoff wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> in my opinion the current build process does not suit Gtk# and a 
>>>> cross-platform project in general. The autotools/make build system 
>>>> is simply not portable; Windows users have to install either a 
>>>> Cygwin build environment or create their own Makefiles(as I finally 
>>>> did).
>>>>  
>>> I just installed cygwin on my new laptop for an installer summit we're
>>> having this weekend and had things set up and building with little
>>> effort.  I spent more time downloading and setting up .Net framework
>>> than anything related to cygwin/gtk+.  I am _far_ from a windows
>>>   
>> cygwin is a obsolete tool. The future is mingw. I use atotools in 
>> mingw, but auto* really suck in windows or linux.
> The question for me is not how much time it takes to install Cygwin; 
> Cygwin simply hides the aspect that this build system is not portable. 
> Without Cygwin there would be no way to compile Gtk# with the existing 
> build system.
GTK# was ported to windows with mingw. GTK the same.
Here we have list of linux packages ported to windows from linux in mingw:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

with mingw we have a 100% windows native applications and it´s quite 
similar to GCC to use (All C functions are exported by default, but you 
can export them like in visual c++)

>>> development guru.  The wiki articles at mono-project.com and medsphere
>>> document the wrinkles.  I don't see the problem.
>>>
>>>  
>>>> I think we need a cross-platform build process and thought about 
>>>> migrating to CMake. CMake runs natively on all important 
>>>> platforms(including MacOS) and seems to fulfill our needs(it does 
>>>> even support cross-platform compilation!). The gapi-cdecl-insert 
>>>> script can be replaced by a sed command as I did in the MinGW 
>>>> makefiles already. What do you think? Is my idea actually possible? 
>>>> I would start working on it if you want.      
>> There are obsolete technologies in linux and people don´t mind that. 
>> I believe we have go ahead...
>>
>> With waf you can compile in a easy way software for visual c++, 
>> mingw, gcc, mono, D, java, Qt, GTK, gnome, KDE,...
>>
>> Like WAF in python we can hack it really easy. We can add support to 
>> IDEs workspace like code-blocks, netbeans, monodevelop, visual 
>> studio, etc
>>
>> by default WAF works like auto*. CMAKE create workspaces for default 
>> in windows.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
> I will look into both CMake and waf and see if I manage to build Gtk# 
> with them. By now I haven't got an idea how they work, but in every 
> case I don't think that the auto* build system is the best choice. 
> I'll keep you posted.
>

waf configure
waf build
waf install


Quite similar to auto*.
http://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/UsingWaf


> Christian
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