[Bf-committers] cmake vs scons

[Paul Fitzpatrick]

On 01/14/2010 07:56 PM, Campbell Barton wrote:
> re: output try..
> make -s
> or...
> make VERBOSE=0
>    

That gives quiet output, I think Ken may have wanted the opposite, to 
inhibit quiet output:
   make VERBOSE=1
This should show the full compile and link commands, rather than just 
the pretty summaries.


> Im not sure about static linking, though even on scons this is a pain,
>    

One way I've done this in the past (for official releases of other 
programs, not blender) is to make a collection of all the libraries I 
wanted linked statically in a subdirectory of my build directory, say 
"static_libs",and then added this at the beginning of the main 
CMakeLists.txt file:

   SET (STATLIB "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/static_libs")
   IF (EXISTS ${STATLIB})
       MESSAGE(STATUS "static_libs directory present: ${STATLIB}")
       LINK_DIRECTORIES(${STATLIB})
       FILE(GLOB statlibs ${STATLIB}/*.a)
       LINK_LIBRARIES(${statlibs})
       # Optional: statically link gcc library.
       # Make sure you link libstdc++.a too for C++ code.
       ADD_DEFINITIONS(-static-libgcc)
       SET(CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE "${CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE} 
-static-libgcc")
   ENDIF (EXISTS ${STATLIB})

There's probably a more elegant way, but this seems to work - the static 
versions of the libraries get picked up for linking.
Cheers,
Paul


> I think we should move to including libs and start blender with a
> shell script, also since some libraries make it fairly hard to static
> link with them (no option to build static by default for eg.)
> Nevertheless We can probably get cmake to link statically link libraries too.
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Ken Hughes<khughes at pacific.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> Since this discussion has come up, I've been trying cmake to see what it
>> does.  I admit I used to use make for projects all the time, but as my
>> code time has wained and I've only been working with Blender, I've been
>> using scons exclusively and have forgotten how to do many thing using make.
>>
>> Having said that, I was able to get blender to build today using cmake.
>> It has a little bit of a leaning curve, but then again so did scons when
>> I started working with it.  One thing I haven't figured out yet is the
>> equivalent of "scons BF_QUIET=0" for when I want to see exactly what
>> make is telling the compiler to do.  I hit the gcc/openmp/fluid bug, but
>> wasn't able to see exactly what was crashing.
>>
>> Another thing; for the linux release builds, lots of libraries have to
>> be linked statically, which you normally don't need to do for your own
>> personal build.  But reading through the cmake documentation and
>> CMakeLists.txt, I can't see where we are supporting this.  If I'm wrong,
>> then I'd appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.
>> Otherwise, it's a deal-breaker for me.
>>
>> Ken
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