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Re: [simspark-devel] CMake and Autotools support
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From: Hedayat V. <hed...@ai...> - 2009-03-16 15:36:58
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Hi,<br>
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van Dijk <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sgv...@gm..."><sgv...@gm...></a></b></i>
wrote on 03/16/2009
05:59:10 PM:</span><br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); color: navy; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); padding-left: 15px;" cite="mid:efd...@ma..." type="cite">Hey all,<br>
<br>
We encountered a small issue with using cmake. As defined in
CMakeLists.txt, the minimum required version is 2.6. However, on some
systems we have 2.4, which is the version used in Ubuntu 8.04. Since
this is the latest Long Term Support version I can imagine more people
stick to this version. I am not familir with cmake at all besides the
use for simspark, but is there some functionality that we rely on that
is not in version 2.4. Or can we perhaps just set the required version
to 2.4 so it can be used on more systems?<br>
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I'm not sure about it, but CMake had a rapid growth recently and many
changes, so I guess that the current files won't work with 2.4
versions. But, you can try changing the min version to 2.4 to see what
happens. But, again, I think it will fail with a high probability. And
I think it will need many dirty changes to make it compatible with 2.4
(but I'm not sure again!!).<br>
On the other hand, if I remember correctly, cmake.org provides binary
packages for Linux, so it might be easy to get a binary version of
cmake 2.6 and run under Ubuntu 8.04. <br>
Finally, compiling cmake should not be problematic and it won't need
extra requirements I think.<br>
What's your opinion?<br>
<br>
Thanks a lot,<br>
Hedayat<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Sander<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Hedayat
Vatankhah <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hed...@ai...">hed...@ai...</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Hi again!</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">I've almost
finished
adding CMake support to our projects in SVN. It needs testing on
systems with different configurations, but the needed changes would not
be much. So, it seems that removing autotools support will not hurt the
project itself. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">First, from now on
please consider CMake as the primary build system, and use it instead
of auto-tools yourselves, and report any problems you have (and
possibly fix them). </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Second, sooner or
later
we are going to drop auto-tools support. I think there are 2 reasonable
options (you can add new ones though): 1. removing autotools support
now (before releasing a new version) or 2. maintaining autotools
support until the next release of the simulator and dropping the
support after that. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">I'm still not sure
if
the second option have any advantages. Please let us know what you
think about it.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Finally, it would
be
nice if you can test our CMake build system on Mac OSX and Windows,�
and help us to improve our CMake support so the we can use cmake for
all platforms and not using any other build systems for that purpose
(like VS project files).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Also, CPack (a part
of
cmake suit) supports generating installers for those systems (on
Windows, it support NSIS installer). It'll enable us to create binary
installers easily. I'll try to improve our support for those systems,
but it needs testing specially on Mac OSX as I'm not much familiar with
it and I don't have access to one of those. (It seems that CPack
supports creating RPMs and DEBs too, but I've not investigated� them
yet.)<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Thanks for your
support,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Hedayat<br>
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