Hello all I'm working on creating a new build system called Meson ( https://jpakkane.github.io/meson/). To make sure it can handle the requirements of real projects I take random open source projects (usually large and complex) and rewrite their build systems in Meson.
For Firefox I tried to see how much effort it would take to configure and build nspr including unit tests. After a few hours work I got it working on 64bit Linux. It took about 1000 lines of code (~750 of which go to defining unit tests). Most unit tests even run successfully. :) If you want to try it yourself, just get Meson and Mozilla from head and then download and extract this file in your source tree: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37517477/mozilla-meson.tar.gz To configure and build just do this: mkdir buildmeson /path/to/meson.py .. ninja ninja test (note that since some tests freeze it currently looks like nothing is happening) That's about it. This is obviously not in any way a replacement for the current build system (which would be a huge task, yes I read the wiki :-) but I hope you find it interesting, even if only from a curiosity point of view. Thanks,
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