Re: [SIP-devel] next step: Windows porting

[Zhang C. <ch...@ma...>]

Ricardo Fabbri wrote:

>Hi Zhang
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>>    I'm doing some hacking to simpletoolbox. Becauce I got disappointed
>>with Mingw and MSYS, I decide to use native build tool on Windows.
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>Nice.. I would at least leave a comment on MinGW forums/lists, at
>least for _their_ benefit. They are usually very responsive.
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>>I
>>read some articles on web talking about the GNU build system(aka
>>autoconf,automake,libtool) and its alternative such as
>>CMake(www.cmake.org) and SCons(www.scons.org). The capability of
>>cross-platform build of the later two is very impressive. Used in VXL
>>project, CMake shoud be familiar to Ricardo.
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>That's cool. CMake is specially good for C++ code. The only issue with
>it is to learn how to build a loadable module using it. Also, CMake
>has poor documentation online AFAIK, the only complete and didatic doc
>is the book, which you have to pay for. Anyways, my knowledge of CMake
>is far less than autotools (yep, this is no excuse)..
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Yes, the so limited documentation of CMake is a big problem... I'll give 
a try on Scons today and compare them.

>What I like about Autotools is the flexibility a "configure.ac" script
>offers for unix systems, since you can write any portable shell script
>to test virtually anything. Animal is so portable: it works with _any_
>ImageMagick version! Cmake can possibly do the same, but I really have
>no knowledge how.. that would be a major effort.
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>>    I modify the SimpleToolbox today and use nmake( command line tools
>>from Microsoft, also used by Scilab ) to build it. I succeed in
>>generating libsimple.dll and loader.sce and installing them under the
>>directory SCILAB/contrib automatically :-)
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>That's awesome.. did you actually load the toolbox and typed 
>soma(2,3) and got 5 ? :-)
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Of cause:-)

>>Now I want to liston to other developers' ideas and suggestions for
>>further hacking.
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>Just a little piece of advice: under windows, it is more important to
>make an installable binary than to make an easy-to-compile source.
>Another advice: take note of your hacks :)
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Yes, I use the commands nmake && nmake install in the command line 
window for sake of convience. I share the same idea with you that we 
should make an binary installer on Windows:-)

>>    How can I put a *toolbox* button on the panel of Scilab? What files
>>shall I have to add under the directory SCILAB/contrib/simple? Now there
>>are only two files(libsimple.dll and loader.sce) in that folder.
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>Put a dummy empty builder.sce in there too.
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Yeah! It works! The button is so lovely! Thank you!

>good luck,
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