On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Mike Blumenkrantz <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've spent some time over the past couple days investigating ways to > improve efficiency during development. I came across the meson build system > (http://mesonbuild.com/), and the time comparisons to autotools made meson > seem staggeringly fast. Additionally, it seems to be quite flexible and > have cross-compilation support.
i've used it for echart : read https://github.com/vtorri/echart2/blob/master/README.md for example of builds with cross compilation Vincent > > A fully functional meson build system for enlightenment can now be found in > my "meson" branch. My current benchmarks with it: > > meson: > meson . build 2.05s user 0.64s system 103% cpu 2.607 total > ninja 379.02s user 60.36s system 347% cpu 2:06.31 total > sudo ninja install 2.36s user 0.35s system 98% cpu 2.746 total > > autotools: > ( autoreconf -fi && ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 ) 16.46s > user 2.74s system 96% cpu 19.830 total > make -j16 536.93s user 145.03s system 349% cpu 3:15.22 total > sudo make -j16 install 11.75s user 2.16s system 165% cpu 8.427 total > > > As seen above, this saves me over a minute for each rebuild, and I will > likely merge it into the main tree soon if no major issues are reported. > > > Known (unfixable) issue: > * If you have a configured source directory (ie. you have run ./configure), > the build may error due to inclusion of conflicting headers generated from > autotools and headers generated from meson. make clean will not delete > these headers; they require manual deletion or maintainer-clean. > > > To use after pulling meson branch: > 1. <Install meson+ninja> > 2. cd enlightenment > 3. meson . build && cd build > 3.5. [optional] mesonconf -D[option]=[value] (most options are now, instead > of --enable-option, -Doption=true; all options listed when running > mesonconf with no params) > 4. ninja > 5. sudo ninja install > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
