Mixing compilers

[Hannah von Reth]

Hi Thomas,


The main question is, how are backend and froentend supposed to communicate?

A server client application using sockets?

Also be aware that if both frontend and backend depend on Qt, you'd need 
to ship Qt two times.

Cheers,

Hannah

On 23/06/2019 12:40, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'll try to break my earlier question about building rkward frontend /
> backend with different compilers into (hopefully) more managable
> chunks. The basic idea is still that we might build our frontend
> process using MSVC (and will be able to use QWebEngine), and the
> backend process using MinGW (in order to solve compatibility
> nightmares). Questions:
>
> 1. I assume it is still correct that craft does not support multiple
> compilers in one installation, and there are no plans to add anything
> the like.
>
> My plan then would have to be along the lines to build the backend,
> alone, on a MinGW craft, and the frontend, on an MSVC craft. Then on
> the MSVC craft, I would additionally fetch the MinGW-built backend
> binary, somehow. So questions:
>
> 2. Can a single craft recipe produce two separate artifacts (frontend /
> backend), or will I need separate recipes?
>
> 3. Can a single recipe be source-compiled on one compiler, but binary
> on another? Or will I need to split the backend package, further, into
> a source recipe and a binary recipe?
>
> 4. (How) can I install a binary package from the binary factory itself?
>
> Regards
> Thomas