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

[Thomas Fletcher]

I will say Thank You ... we use cmake as the base for nearly every new
WebKit port we engage in.

We have a native Windows build that is cmake to replace the Apple/CF based
one and it is so much
easier to maintain than the previous collection of VS property pages and
build configurations.  Not
only that but we can quickly generate multiple build variants (CF vs GDI for
example) very quickly
and also share project content in ways that make sense (such as with WinCE).

We can count at least 6 ports we have done using cmake.  We have rolled our
own a couple of times
on early ports, but on the last few with the 'in tree' initial base from
WinCE and EFL we're now using
that as a basis.

So Patrick (and whomever else kicks in keeping the cmake builds running) ...
THANK YOU.

Thomas
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From:  Patrick Gansterer <paroga at paroga.com>
Date:  Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:43:28 +0200
To:  Mark Rowe <mrowe at apple.com>
Cc:  Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org>, WebKit Development
<webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>
Subject:  Re: [webkit-dev] CMake for Apple's Windows port


Am 12.04.2012 um 20:06 schrieb Dirk Pranke:
> 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?

You need to install CMake and the same tools listed at
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WinCE#Build and
http://www.webkit.org/building/tools.html (but without cygwin).


Am 12.04.2012 um 23:47 schrieb Mark Rowe:
> On 2012-04-12, at 14:28, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Interesting.  Can you comment further on why this is needed, instead of just
>> checking out the whole repo?
> 
> The short answer is that doing so would violate internal policies that we have
> about what sorts of files are acceptable in the source of production builds
> (for example, precompiled libraries are not acceptable). We also don't have
> any desire to shuffle multiple gigabytes of layout tests around machines that
> are only used for building.

Is it possible to get a (detailed) list of requirements? It's hard for
people don't knowing the internal Apple build process to work on it.

Why isn't it possible to checkout only the Source directory?
Since the current system has more than 1 VS solution too, I don't think it
will be a problem to have more than one "root CMakeLists.txt" too.

Is there a interest in getting rid of the Visual Studio files? Are there any
points agains CMake we know already? I don't want to put (much) work into
the CMake files for a simple "No, thanks" at the end. ;-)

-- Patrick
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