I hope I've known this earlier so I can do less... and I'll goto your branch and join gitter channel to discuss .
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Charles Huet <charles.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I ported the work of @inbilla to CMake trunk a few months ago, and fixed > quite a few tests on my fork: https://github.com/packadal/CMake > > I think it would be best if we tried to synchronize our efforts, since lots > of people are interested in getting a FastBuild generator for CMake ! > There is a gitter channel that is used to discuss the progress here: > https://gitter.im/inbilla/CMake > > I hope we can get this to work well enough to be iontegrated in CMake 3.8, > but I did not have time to work on this lately. > I hope to get back to it this week, but I am always available for discussion > :) > > Best > > > Le dim. 8 janv. 2017 à 05:59, comic fans <comicfan...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Hello: >> >> Fastbuild is a opensource multi platform build tool which has built-in >> cache/distribute (likes ccache/distcc) and pch/unity build >> support(http://fastbuild.org/docs/home.html). >> >> >> @inbilla created fastbuild generator based on 3.2.1 here >> https://github.com/inbilla/CMake , this completed almost everything >> but didn't continue developing for a while. recently I've rebase his >> work on master branch, with some >> tweaks(https://gitlab.kitware.com/comicfans/cmake/commits/upstream2),now >> it can builds cmake , and almost llvm/clang, so I'd like to share >> this here, hopes more user to test this out. >> >> I haven't touch cmake code before so it may not as good as you think. >> If anyone interested to try this code, any comments and suggestion >> would be helpful. >> >> >> How Fastbuild compares to Ninja : >> If build locally, fastbuild almost as fast as ninja , but fastbuild >> provides simpler distrubte support,you can just run fastbuild worker >> on many woker machine (without need to install toolchain) to speed up. >> As I tested, >> >> host (4core4thread 8GB ) local build clang: 60 min >> host + worker (6core12thread 32GB) distrubite clang : 30 min >> >> Fastbuild Generator current status: >> >> local build works on linux/windows (I don't have mac to test) >> >> some cmake variable not set correctly (RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, >> LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, how to put CFGIntDir in ? help needed !), >> >> distrubte build not work (you can list toolchain exe/dll in header, >> or just copy header from fastbuild src's to make distribute build >> work) I wonder if cmake has builtin support to list all these files, >> help needed! >> >> config/build on windows must run from vs cmd console, because cmake >> didn't detect windows SDK for include/link path (Ninja generator also >> suffer from this). help needed. >> >> edit CMake files didn't auto trigger fastbuild auto rebuild, must rerun >> cmake >> >> rerun cmake makes fastbuild rebuild everything. this is fastbuild's >> shortcoming, author is working on this. >> >> custom commands will generate script file (bash/bat) ,should we write >> commands as argument to sh/cmd , or improve this in fastbuild ? >> -- >> >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >> >> Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more >> information on each offering, please visit: >> >> CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html >> CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html >> CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
