Hi all,
I've just committed to the wxCode CVS repo a new set of bakefiles
which should make the build systems of wxCode components more reliable
and much more easier to maintain (thanks to cleaner .bkl files).
Please see the "wxCode bakefile changes" thread for more info (I've
managed to workaround the problem about the msvs2005prj and msvc6prj
formats there mentioned).
In short these changes will:
- make easier for your users to compile your project (better error
messages) and to match them to a wxWidgets build
- allow your project to be built in various build modes without
conflicts (e.g. you'll be able to build a Unicode and ANSI version of
your libraries as they will be named differently -- just as wxWidgets
itself does). This means that libraries generated by your wxcode
projects will be named e.g. libwxcode_gtk2d_keybinder-2.9.a and will go
(on Windows) in a subfolder of "lib" created by the makefile: vc_lib,
vc_dll, gcc_lib etc.
- allow your project to have .SLN and .VCPROJ generated next to the
.DSW and .DSP ones (for MSVC 2005)
- allow your project to use "gnu" format instead of "autoconf" (which
has the "trouble" of requiring additional config.sub, config.guess,
configure.ac files, and require you to use aclocal & autoconf).
Now "gnu" format works just fine with wx and basically will be the
equivalent of makefile.vc|bcc|gcc|wat for Unix.
The following mail describe the required changes to the
- .bkl
- configure.ac
- Bakefiles.bkgen
files of your projects.
For an example see the following diffs:
=============== CHANGES TO THE .bkl FILE
Example diff for a typical wxCode bakefile:
http://wxcode.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wxcode/trunk/wxCode/components/keybinder/build/keybinder.bkl?r1=346&r2=437
1) remove old <include> statements and add this at the beginning:
<include file="presets/wxcode.bkl"/>
2) replace <set var="COMP_NAME">yourCompName</set> with:
<set-comp-name>yourCompName</set-comp-name>
3) remove all other <set var="COMP_*"> statements: in particular you
won't need anymore the _SRC and _HDR COMP variables as Bakefile will now
detect all the .CPP and .H of your project automatically.
This is a big enhancement as you now won't need anymore to keep such
ugly lists in your bakefile and update them whenever you add/remove a
source/header file from your project.
4) substitute "complib" with "wxcode-lib" and "compdll" with
"wxcode-dll" templates.
5) don't use <exe></exe> tag for your wxCode samples; instead replace
them with <wxcode-sample>
6) replace the <win32-res> and <res-include> from your wxCode samples with
<dir>directory_of_your_sample_project</dir>
<has-win32-res/>
where the first tag needs the path to the directory containing the
sample project relatively to the location of the bakefile and the second
tag needs to be present only if you have a .rc file in that directory.
============ CHANGES TO THE Bakefiles.bkgen
Example diff:
http://wxcode.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wxcode/trunk/wxCode/components/keybinder/build/Bakefiles.bkgen?r1=436&r2=HEAD
1) simply remove all contents inside <bakefile-gen> tag except for the
<input> tag ;)
2) add a
<include file="../../../build/bakefiles/presets/wxcode.bkgen"/>
line before the <input> tag.
Typically your Bakefiles.bkgen will become as simple as:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<bakefile-gen>
<include file="../../../build/bakefiles/presets/wxcode.bkgen"/>
<input>keybinder.bkl</input>
</bakefile-gen>
============ CHANGES TO THE configure.ac
Example diff:
http://wxcode.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wxcode/trunk/wxCode/components/keybinder/build/configure.ac?r1=346&r2=437
1) replace AM_WXCODE_INIT with WXCODE_INIT
2) replace AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG and AM_OPTIONS_WXPRESETS macros with a
call to WXCODE_OPTIONS([debug,unicode,shared,toolkit,wxshared,wxversion])
if you don't want e.g. the --with-toolkit=gtk|mac|msw|etc option, you
can remove the "toolkit" option from the call to WXCODE_OPTIONS.
Other options are very useful and should be left.
3) replace AM_WXCODE_CHECKS([2.8.0]) with
WXCODE_CHECKS([2.8.0], [core,base])
where 2.8.0 is the minimal required wxWidgets version and core,base is
the list of the wxWidgets libraries required by your project (base
should always be present).
4) replace AM_WXCODE_END with WXCODE_END
Please mail on _this_ mailing list for any doubt/problem so that anyone
can see the reply ;)
Francesco
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