On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to build an executable under linux for both linux and windows,
> as well as mac on mac.
> For Linux, I'm using a mingw32 toolchain that can output windows
> executables on linux.
>
> I added a Clang toolchain for MacOS and the mingw32(Gcc) toolchain for
> windows, and forgot about linux. Basically I had this:
>
>
> 1. toolChains {
> 2. host(Clang)
> 3. mingw(Gcc) {
> 4.
> 5. addPlatformConfiguration(new MingwOnLinuxConfiguration())
>
> (I also setup the toolchain to point to the installed mingw)
>
> With this TargetPlatformConfiguration:
>
>
> 1. class MingwOnLinuxConfiguration implements
> TargetPlatformConfiguration {
> 2.
> 3. boolean supportsPlatform(Platform element) {
> 4. return element.getOperatingSystem().name == "windows"
> 5. }
>
>
>
What is extremely strange is that when building linux on linux, it should
> have failed: no Clang toolchain available, and mingw should be compatible
> with windows target only. Yet it used mingw to build linux. Is this
> expected?
>
Yep. Gcc.addPlatformConfiguration() is adding a new supported platform to
the set of platforms that are supported by Gcc by default.
There's not currently any way to replace or remove this default support.
>
> I've also run into a few issues where changing C compiler Args or Linker
> Args doesn't trigger a new compile or linker execution. It seems like the
> task inputs don't take those into account properly (under Gradle 1.12). I
> can file a separate bug for this.
>
This definitely should work, but there might be cases in which it's not
quite right. If you can provide more details that would be helpful.
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