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

[Dirk Pranke]

On Apr 12, 2012 1:17 PM, "Mark Rowe" <mrowe at apple.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2012-04-12, at 12:08, Adam Treat <atreat at rim.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> It has little to do with installing software and everything to do with
the complexity involved in making a new build system work within the
constraints of our production build process. In particular, each project
needs to be able to build independently from the others. That is, the
equivalent of "svn co
http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk/Source/WTF && make -C WTF"
needs to work. Based on what I can see of the existing structure of the
CMake build system this isn't possible as parts of the build system live in
the root of the repository or the Source directory.
>

Interesting.  Can you comment further on why this is needed, instead of
just checking out the whole repo?

-- Dirk

> - Mark
>
> > ________________________________________
> > 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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