Re: [Wavepacket-ng-devel] Build system

[Ulf L. <ul...@wa...>]

Since the build system can be migrated rather easily, does anyone mind
if we start with simple makefiles?


Ulf


On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:25:23 +0100
Ulf Lorenz <ul...@wa...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> what we further need to decide on is a build system. I have some
> limited knowledge, maybe someone of you can contribute here.
> 
> The program will consist of different libraries, each being a more
> or less separate project with different dependencies. It would make
> sense, for example, to put the mathematical stuff in a separate
> library, so that we can have, e.g., a simple mathematics library with
> few dependencies and, say, another library that uses Cuda for more
> speed, but with exotic dependencies.
> 
> So what we make is first basic make tool, and second a mechanism for
> dependency recognition.
> 
> What I know of make tools is
> * make (ugly in some parts, but pretty standard on Unix)
> * ant (Java-based and thus portable)
> * maven (only heard of it; sounds nice, but no knowledge)
> Do you have deeper knowledge or know other build toold, and/or what
> would you suggest to use?
> 
> For the dependency recognition, what I know here is:
> * Do everything as variables. The user then has to edit the "Makefile"
>   and compile
> * autoconf/automake. Pretty standard, but really ugly as far as I
>   recall.
> * CMake. I know it exists, but have never used it.
> * others?
> What ideas, suggestions do you have here?
> 
> Ulf
> 
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