[webkit-dev] CMake for Apple's Windows port

[Jarred Nicholls]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Adam Treat <atreat at rim.com> wrote:

> If my memory serves me the problem was that Apple couldn't figure out how
> to get cmake installed on the Apple build system machine.
>

@WebKitMemes you're up


> ________________________________________
> From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org [
> webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org] on behalf of Dirk Pranke [
> dpranke at chromium.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:06 PM
> To: Patrick Gansterer
> Cc: WebKit Development
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] CMake for Apple's Windows port
>
> I think this is great; I've been meaning to spend some time on the
> apple win port trying to fix the remaining bugs holding up the switch
> to NRWT, but the fact that the apple win port still uses VS2005 is
> definitely an impediment (yes, I can probably just pull the binaries
> down from a bot for my purposes, but I'd really like to be able to
> build it).
>
> Patrick, have you documented what all you need to install on a Win box
> in order to be able to run CMake and do the build?
>
> Can someone from Apple weigh in on whether switch to CMake would be
> feasible?
>
> -- Dirk
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Patrick Gansterer <paroga at paroga.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > it's more than a year since the last discussion about the build system
> of Apple's Windows port. In the meantime I merged most of the general
> changes into the CMake files in the repository and have a working patch
> with a few CMake files at [1] as written in [2]. I don't think that it is
> ready to replace the existing vcproj files already, but I like to hear all
> points needed to do that.
> > Adding CMake files for the WinCairo port (which uses the vcproj files
> too) will be very easy when the Apple version has been added.
> >
> > Here some benefits to the CMake version:
> > 1) Shared build system: The shared files are already used by the
> Blackberry, EFL and WinCE port, so only the list of platform specific files
> needs to be maintained.
> > 2) No dependency on cygwin [3]: The CMake build system searches for the
> Win32 version of the required executables (bison, gperf, flex, perl and
> python) like the WinCE port does already (see [4]).
> > 3) Less Solution targets: Some of he current vcproj files only used for
> triggering Makefiles. The vcproj generates more native vcproj files, which
> e.g. allows clicking on one of the IDL files to generate the corresponding
> files.
> > 4) Easy creation of Visual Studio 2010 project files [5]: Using CMake
> allows an easy transition to other (newer) Visual Studio versions, since
> every developer can choose his preferred version.
> > 5) It's possibe to create Makefiles: The output of the windows buildbots
> shows much unwanted messages. Using Makefiles on the bots can produce
> cleaner logs and take advantage of all cores when used with JOM [7].
> >
> > Would be great if people who use the current VS Solution can give the
> CMake version a try and provide some feedback about it.
> >
> > BTW: There is also a patch to switch Wx to CMake at [8], but it did not
> get a positive response.
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72816
> > [2]
> https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-February/015831.html
> > [3] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48166
> > [4] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WinCE#Build
> > [5] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53445
> > [6]
> https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-January/015815.html
> > [7] http://qt-project.org/wiki/jom
> > [8] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73100
> >
> > -- Patrick
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