[Bf-committers] CVS, Make & MSVC

[Rene Dudfield]

Here's another option.  It translates automake stuff
into a dsp.

http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/admin/am2dsp.pl

From the flightgear project.

Again, I can't test this out myself, as I don't have
msvc.


 --- Rene Dudfield <illumen@yahoo.com> wrote: > 
> The crystal space msvc generator is in this
> directory
> of the crystal space distribution:  
> mk/msvcgen/
> 
> The main author is Eric Sunshine.  It's written in
> perl(so a perl interpreter would be needed).  I
> can't
> really play around with it as I don't have msvc.  So
> hopefully someone else can have a look.
> 
> It might not be too hard to extract the info the
> generator needs from the autotools make files.
> 
> Also tmake/qmake/cmake have some code for generating
> msvc project files.
> 
> 
> I think bundling cmake with blender may be an
> option. 
> To make it easy to for users to install.  The
> absolute
> path name issue should be able to be solved as well.
> 
> 
>  --- Rene Dudfield <illumen@yahoo.com> wrote: >  ---
> Upi Tamminen <desaster@dragonlight.fi> wrote: >
> > Hmm.. CMake seems to generate absolute paths
> instead
> > > of relative in the
> > > Makefiles, e.g.:
> > > 
> > > CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE =
> > > /home/desaster/blender/source/cmake/blender
> > > CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY =
> > > /home/desaster/blender/source/cmake/blender
> > > 
> > > So these generated makefiles are only useful to
> > me,
> > > not for releases
> > 
> > 
> > This is not good.  Maybe it is an option.  If not
> > may
> > not be too hard to add as an option.  Or write a
> > script which replaces
> > '/home/desaster/blender/source/cmake/blender' with
> > the
> > top level dir of the blender install.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Also, cmake does lot of important checks when
> ran,
> > > just like autotools'
> > > configure script.  End-users would need to
> install
> > > cmake to properly
> > > build blender, while with autotools the
> generated
> > > configure script is totally
> > > independent of autoconf/automake
> > > 
> > 
> > That is a big plus for the autotools.  Perhaps we
> > could package cmake with blender?  cmake has
> > practically no dependencies.
> > 
> > The other option is create project files from the
> > autotools somehow.  Anyone able to do this within
> a
> > couple of weeks/months?  I'll look some more at
> the
> > crystalspace tool, see if it is useful.
> > 
> > Which ever method is used for generating project
> > files,   the config step will need to run on the
> > users
> > system.
> > 

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