William A. Hoffman schrieb: > At 09:46 AM 3/17/2006, Alex Caudill wrote: > >> You could: >> 1.) use cmakesetup and modify the directories for each library location >> 2.) modify the cmake cache by hand >> >> Is there some reason for treating kdewin32 as a seperate dependency? it >> seems like you could add: >> >> IF (WIN32) >> IF (NOT KDEWIN32_FOUND) >> add_subdirectory( win ) >> >> before any of the other subdirectories (or perhaps after cmake/) and make >> this a bit more straightforward. Unless, of course, there's a good reason >> not to. > > OK, this really needs to be fixed. The problem is that kdewin32 is used > in the try compile part of cmake, as it provides system functions. So, it > has to be built first, so that cmake can test against it. There are some > solutions to this: > > 1. build kdewin32 as part of the kde build, but add a single cmake file > in the directory that tells which things it provides. This file would have > to be updated each time a new function was added/removed from kdewin32, it > would basically contain a bunch of set(VAR true) values, which would prevent > cmake from running a try compile for this feature. You would know very > quickly > when you had this wrong as things would not buld on windows. > > > 2. We could build and install kdewin32 as a try compile step, then use that > version to test against. > > As a cmake developer, I would strongly recommend 1. Although you are hard > coding the contents of the library, it has some advantages. If a function > is removed or added to the library, things will work. Once a try compile > is done, it will not get re-run unless you delete the cache entry, so if you > remove something from kdewin32 it will be painful. This is a real pain for > building on windows, and it adds extra complexity to the build that just > is not there on unix builds. Why do these problems raise up once more? What's the problem to build & install kdewin32 *before* starting with kdelibs4?
We should move kdewin to antoher place asap to not bring up this discussion every month... nay ideas? kdesupport? Christian
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