[Kde-bindings] [Qyoto] New Build Instructions for Linux, Windows MinGW and Windows Visual Studio

[David Lechner]

On 3/1/2013 4:54 AM, Arno Rehn wrote:
>> I have one change to smokegen that is needed to get the Visual Studio
>> builds working:
>> https://github.com/dlech/smokegen/commit/de32c886c03b2f8cfe1afc63f8cda188e7b85e19
>>
> I'm unsure about this. AFAIK the default on windows is:
> .dlls and .exes go into bin/, .lib, .a go into lib/. I'm not entirely
> sure though; I'll look it up.
This is correct. And, we really want the .a or the .lib file and not the 
.dll here. It seems that MinGW is smart enough to find the .a in lib/ 
even if you point it to the .dll in bin/. You can see that this is what 
it is doing if you turn on CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE. So, MinGW works 
either way (searching for libs in bin/ or lib/). Visual Studio, on the 
other hand is not smart enough and you must point it to lib/. Since 
searching in lib/ works in all cases, I don't see a reason for searching 
in bin/.

By the way, I should have mentioned in the commit message that this is a 
partial revert of aaaa8f289f15a1e0e60d595bb38fc25089ac6e0d

>
>> Also one for smoke qt that makes windows builds (both MinGW and VS) work
>> with less manual configuration:
>> https://github.com/dlech/smokeqt/commit/aee4734d50456b2bcd4893137d2dba1d1ff2e8b1
>>
> This would however defeat the purpose of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. Can't you
> just set the same prefix for all smoke related projects?
>

I see. My goal is to make as little manual configuration needed as 
possible. So, how about this instead:
https://github.com/dlech/smokeqt/commit/38f0b45480c67b639ea77b71e94ae20e7811ea5b

It sets CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to ${SMOKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} unless the user 
specifies their own CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. It has the same effect as the 
other patch, but does not break CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.