Build system for KDE4

[Ralf Habacker]

Am Montag, 13. Juni 2005 08:50 schrieb David Johnson:
> On Sunday 12 June 2005 11:24 pm, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> 
> > kde is based on QT. QT have qmake, which already supports many
> > platforms. There are some extensions required, but as far as I know
> > qmake, there are many things already solved.
> > Because the autotools are not working very good on native windows
> > Jaruslav Staniek already uses qmake for compiling kde.
> 
> One major advantage to qmake, from my perspective, is that it's 
> lightweight. For a standalone application the auto* framework can 
> sometimes be larger than the rest of the distribution. On the other 
> hand, qmake project files are very small.
> 
This is true, the only issues I have with qmake is that is is not very easy to 
extend. Porting qmake to cygwin was a hard job, because it wasn't easy to 
find where things really happen. 

It seems to me, that the internal structure of the Makefile code generator 
hasn't updated for easy adding additional stuff, instead everybody who had 
patched it has added additional cases. This makes it very hard to read the 
implementation (similar to libtools 5000 lines without any function)

On the todo list (this may be addressed to trolltech) there should be some 
cleanup and/or restructering of the code generator implementation. There 
should be more small methods for generating the single part of the Makefile 
instead of using a single line. 

UnixMakefileGenerator::writeMakeParts() for examples has about 1000 lines. How 
should this readable and maintainable ? 

Ralf Habacker