[libksd-devel] RE: scons problem/Compile from cvs?

[David S. <xe...@ne...>]

First, I would like to apoligize for the terribly late response.  Either
SourceForge changed the way their mailing lists work or I got magically
un-subscribed from the list.  I am currently going back and making
copy/paste response to the e-mails I missed.

> I have found out that I need pkg-config for libsigc, and scons
> for configuring/compiling libksd(CVS). Unfortunately, scons
> only processes the src/ directory and I can't seem to find a
> way to create ksd_gui, which is what I want. I wonder whether
> you have a solution for this.

The libksd_gui build is being depreciated from the core, but the build
scripts for it DO exist.  Here is the command:

$ scons src/gui

Either that, or build the widget demo which will automatically cause the
build of libksd_gui since it depends on it:

$ scons demo/widget

You need to use the latest scons (version 0.14) for integrated configure
support.  The pkg-config thing is a temporary problem.  I plan implement a
pure Python parser for pkg-config so that we can enjoy better portability.
 For example, I have never gotten pkg-config to compile under Windows.

> You also might want to add a section to the README in the CVS
> sources. Something like Compiling from CVS, in which pointers
> to pkg-config and scons are given. It is not obvious from
> libsigc it uses pkg-config, and pkg-config is not installed
> everywhere. The same holds for scons.

This is something I am planning to do as soon as the build system
stabilizes.  Moving from GNU automake, autoconf, libtool requires that I
reimplement a lot of that functionality.  I spent many monthes writting
the basis for the autoconf replacement code which has now been integrated
into the mainstream SCons.

> I really hope you can tell me how to compile the CVS version,
> as I cannot really do very much without a working dialog.

Here are some simple commands to get you started:

# cleans (ie. "make clean")
scons -c
# builds distribution
scons dist (ie. "make dist")
# builds the demos
scons demos

SCons has a really useful feature that if you give a directory as a target
on the command line, it will build all the targets under that directory. 
For example, to build just libksd and libksd_gui, you could do:

$ scons src

I hope this helps!
  -- David Snopek