Build problems with cmake / msvc2005

[Christian Ehrlicher]

William A. Hoffman schrieb:
> At 09:46 AM 3/17/2006, Alex Caudill wrote:
> 
>> You could:
>> 1.) use cmakesetup and modify the directories for each library location
>> 2.) modify the cmake cache by hand
>>
>> Is there some reason for treating kdewin32 as a seperate dependency? it
>> seems like you could add:
>>
>> IF (WIN32)
>>   IF (NOT KDEWIN32_FOUND)
>>      add_subdirectory( win )
>>
>> before any of the other subdirectories (or perhaps after cmake/) and make
>> this a bit more straightforward. Unless, of course, there's a good reason
>> not to.
> 
> OK, this really needs to be fixed.    The problem is that kdewin32 is used
> in the try compile part of cmake, as it provides system functions.  So, it
> has to be built first, so that cmake can test against it.   There are some
> solutions to this:
> 
> 1. build kdewin32 as part of the kde build, but add a single cmake file
> in the directory that tells which things it provides.   This file would have
> to be updated each time a new function was added/removed from kdewin32, it
> would basically contain a bunch of set(VAR true) values, which would prevent
> cmake from running a try compile for this feature.  You would know very quickly
> when you had this wrong as things would not buld on windows.
> 
> 
> 2.  We could build and install kdewin32 as a try compile step, then use that
> version to test against.
> 
> As a cmake developer, I would strongly recommend 1.  Although you are hard
> coding the contents of the library, it has some advantages.  If a function
> is removed or added to the library, things will work.   Once a try compile
> is done, it will not get re-run unless you delete the cache entry, so if you
> remove something from kdewin32 it will be painful.   This is a real pain for
> building on windows, and it adds extra complexity to the build that just
> is not there on unix builds.
Why do these problems raise up once more?
What's the problem to build & install kdewin32 *before* starting with
kdelibs4?

We should move kdewin to antoher place asap to not bring up this
discussion every month... nay ideas? kdesupport?

Christian

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 252 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-buildsystem/attachments/20060317/c8425a9f/attachment.pgp