A lot of folks have laptops, so perhaps someone could be convinced to give you the scoop by IRC.
- Maciej On Apr 19, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Patrick Gansterer wrote: > I'm very interested in that discussion, but I can't be physically there. :-( > Is there any any possibility for me to attend it online or get a recording of > it? > > -- Patrick > > Am 20.04.2012 um 06:08 schrieb Eric Seidel: > >> We're discussing reducing the number of build-systems at the WebKit >> meeting tomorrow @ 10am. >> >> Interested parties should definitely be there. Especially ones who >> know something about CMake (since I know nothing). :) >> >> -eric >> >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Patrick Gansterer <par...@paroga.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> it's more than a year since the last discussion about the build system of >>> Apple's Windows port. In the meantime I merged most of the general changes >>> into the CMake files in the repository and have a working patch with a few >>> CMake files at [1] as written in [2]. I don't think that it is ready to >>> replace the existing vcproj files already, but I like to hear all points >>> needed to do that. >>> Adding CMake files for the WinCairo port (which uses the vcproj files too) >>> will be very easy when the Apple version has been added. >>> >>> Here some benefits to the CMake version: >>> 1) Shared build system: The shared files are already used by the >>> Blackberry, EFL and WinCE port, so only the list of platform specific files >>> needs to be maintained. >>> 2) No dependency on cygwin [3]: The CMake build system searches for the >>> Win32 version of the required executables (bison, gperf, flex, perl and >>> python) like the WinCE port does already (see [4]). >>> 3) Less Solution targets: Some of he current vcproj files only used for >>> triggering Makefiles. The vcproj generates more native vcproj files, which >>> e.g. allows clicking on one of the IDL files to generate the corresponding >>> files. >>> 4) Easy creation of Visual Studio 2010 project files [5]: Using CMake >>> allows an easy transition to other (newer) Visual Studio versions, since >>> every developer can choose his preferred version. >>> 5) It's possibe to create Makefiles: The output of the windows buildbots >>> shows much unwanted messages. Using Makefiles on the bots can produce >>> cleaner logs and take advantage of all cores when used with JOM [7]. >>> >>> Would be great if people who use the current VS Solution can give the CMake >>> version a try and provide some feedback about it. >>> >>> BTW: There is also a patch to switch Wx to CMake at [8], but it did not get >>> a positive response. >>> >>> [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72816 >>> [2] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-February/015831.html >>> [3] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48166 >>> [4] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WinCE#Build >>> [5] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53445 >>> [6] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-January/015815.html >>> [7] http://qt-project.org/wiki/jom >>> [8] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73100 >>> >>> -- Patrick >>> _______________________________________________ >>> webkit-dev mailing list >>> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
