[webkit-dev] Please welcome GYP to the our dysfunctional build family

[Jeremy Orlow]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Adam Treat <treat at kde.org> wrote:

> On Friday 10 July 2009 12:23:50 am Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
> > Dear WebKiteurs,
> >
> > In our persisting quest to be more like a common WebKit port, we have
> > added Chromium build files to the tree this afternoon. These files are
> > WebCore/WebCore.gypi and JavaScriptCore/JavaScriptCore.gypi and they
> > are the GYP include files. As you may know, we use GYP
> > (http://code.google.com/p/gyp) for generating MSVC, XCode, Scons, and
> > even Make projects for Chromium.
> >
> > We are rather fond of GYP. Perhaps it is because it allows us to
> > maintain one set of project files for all three Chromium platforms;
>
> Gyp sounds remarkably similar to CMake to me.  I've never heard of Gyp
> before
> so I don't know much more about it than what you've said in this email, but
> CMake has been around for quite sometime and is in very wide use in the
> Open
> Source community.  Can you say what prompts the use of Gyp over a tool like
> CMake?


>From a quick glance at cmake's website, it seems that it's a build system
and not a project file generator.  I think it was pretty important to us to
generate project files so that you can use the full power of each platform's
IDE and toolchain.

J
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