[webkit-dev] Build system for ports

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Mike,

On Apr 15, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Mike Emmel wrote:

> Here is the patch that I used to get this to work not sure why it was
> written the old way
> I've not submitted a bug.

Thanks! It works. Shall I submit a bug for this? Maybe I need to  
brush up on my Perl too... ;-)

Kevin

>
> Index: css/make-css-file-arrays.pl
> ===================================================================
> --- css/make-css-file-arrays.pl (revision 13867)
> +++ css/make-css-file-arrays.pl (working copy)
> @@ -39,10 +39,10 @@
>      my $name = $1;
>
>      # Slurp in the CSS file.
> -    open IN, "-|", "/usr/bin/cpp", "-P", $in, "-" or die;
> +    #open IN, "-|", "/usr/bin/cpp", "-P", $in, "-" or die;
> +    open IN, "-|", "/usr/bin/cpp", "-P", $in or die;
>      my $text; { local $/; $text = <IN>; }
>      close IN;
> -
>      # Remove comments in a simple-minded way that will work fine  
> for our fil
>
> On 4/15/06, Kevin Ollivier <kevino at theolliviers.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As Mike Emmel and I have both decided to use Bakefile for our ports,
>> we decided to work together and create a build system that works for
>> both our ports. As a start, my focus has been on taking Mike's
>> project files and creating a basic project that builds the cross-
>> platform WebCore sources on Win, Mac and Linux that any port would
>> need. This way any new ports that are created can actually just
>> "derive" from the webcore_base project and only have to add includes/
>> sources/etc. specific to their platform or port.
>>
>> I've mostly completed that step. For those interested, here's some
>> brief docs on the system:
>>
>> How to build using Bakefile:
>> http://kevino.theolliviers.com/webkit/bakefile-build.txt
>>
>> (Most of those steps will eventually be scripted, hopefully as part
>> of build-webkit, but I wanted to give people an overview of the
>> process.)
>>
>> Here are the changes I needed to make to WebCore for this to work,
>> and also any unresolved issues on various ports:
>> http://kevino.theolliviers.com/webkit/bakefile-changes.txt
>>
>> Using the Bakefile-generated projects, I've built the cross-platform
>> sources (excluding Cairo, which won't build on OS X...) successfully
>> on Intel Mac OS X 10.4.6 and WinXP SP2/MSVS8, and hopefully once a
>> few more changes are made, Linux (FC4) will build fine as well.
>>
>> But there's still one major question before I can put together a
>> draft to show people. How exactly should build systems for ports be
>> incorporated into the webkit tree? For example, when you think of
>> Win32, wx, etc. there may be multiple MSVS7/8 project files. So do we
>> create one project file and allow people to select a port when they
>> build (with an intelligent default, of course) or do we put project
>> files for ports in separate files/dirs? If the latter (which I'm
>> personally leaning towards), what should the directory scheme for
>> ports be? Do we do, for example,
>>
>> <WebCore>/ports/wx/WebCore.dsw
>>
>> Or just:
>>
>> <WebCore>/wxwebcore.dsw
>>
>> Or a combination, like:
>>
>> <WebCore>/ports/wxwebcore.dsw
>>
>> Ideas? Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin
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