Great, is there a component (of yours) that is updated to compare to?
Thanks,
John Labenski
On 3/2/07, Francesco Montorsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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