I haven't managed to cross-compile for yocto (arm architecture), doesn't
fetch/compile boost library. Even if I manually cross-compile boost I
haven't found a way to let my build system select the stage folder
containing the shared and/or static libs

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 at 20:18 Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 08/30/2017 11:10 AM, Yegor Yefremov via iotivity-dev wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Thiago Macieira
> > <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:11:53 PDT Gregg Reynolds wrote:
> >>>> I'm still trying to understand, what is so wrong with CMake that both
> >>>> IoTivity and AllJoyn are using Scons?
> >>>
> >>> No idea.  All I know is that at some point a switch was made to Scons.
> I'm
> >>> not even sure what was used before that, probably autotools/make, but I
> >>> don't know.
> >>
> >> It was manually-maintained Makefiles.
> >>
> >> The choice to use Scons was made by the developer who volunteered to
> rewrite
> >> the Makefiles. Since there was no one else volunteering to do the work,
> we let
> >> the developer use what he knew best.
> >
> > OK. I see.
> >
> > What about detecting external libs via pkg-config for Linux and if not
> > found then use in-tree copies? Current approauch makes it hard to
> > cross-compile in Buildroot and co, that actually provide all necessary
> > libraries.
>
> some of this is done already (sqlite usage comes to mind).
>
> the cross-compile stuff definitely needs work - I've said that before.
> Android works as it is a complete self-contained "buildroot" (sdk+ndk),
> and the darwin/ios builds use xcode, which is the same way.  The Yocto
> build works as Phil describes it.  For anything else, it will break on
> several assumptions that are not too terribly hard to fix, extlibs usage
> being one set of those - but nobody is really working on that.
>
>
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