Hi all,
now that bakefile 0.2.2 is out and that the wxpresets have been
greatly enhanced I'd like to make some BIG changes to wxCode bakefiles.
I've been working on them today and yesterday and I've managed to get
many advantages:
- extremely smaller Bakefiles.bkgen files
- _much_ cleaner bakefiles (less, more friendly code): you won't
even need to list your component's sources & headers anymore!
(Bakefile will automatically detect your component's sources & headers)
- painless setting of
=> wx-style build directory to allow multi-builds with different
settings for WX_UNICODE/DEBUG/UNICODE
=> wx-style "lib/[compiler]_lib" directory to allow multi-builds
=> wx-style lib naming
- full support for "gnu" makefile format as alternative to the fat
"autoconf" format for Unix
The new bakefile 0.2.2 also supports msvs2005 which is surely a Good
Thing (but see below)
However all these changes have two drawbacks:
1) currently I've hit a bug in bakefile which makes it loop endlessly
when generating msvs2005prj and msvc6prj formats for the component samples
2) it requires modifications to all your component's build files:
- Bakefiles.bkgen
- yourcomp.bkl
- configure.ac
since the new bakefiles are incompatible with the previous ones.
I've updated all the build systems of my components (changes not yet
committed) and I can say it requires about 30 minutes to do all the
changes to the build system.
All in all, I'd say that as soon as the problem #1 will be fixed I'll
commit the new bakefiles (thus forcing everyone which wants to
regenerate its component's build system to do the upgrade)... what do
you say?
Do you agree?
I strongly think it's worth the effort also because I didn't describe in
details all the advantages you get - e.g. you now get a nice error
message like "The selected wx build does not exist" when you do "nmake
-fmakefile.vc WX_UNICODE=1" and you don't have any Unicode build of wx;
previously you only get a compiler error about an unreachable
"wx/wxprec.h"...
Francesco
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