[Opensim-dev] 3rd party libs and build system revisited

[dan miller]

you folks should look at how ODE organizes their build environment.

They have a ./configure make etc. setup for 'nix developers, and that is the
standard build.

Then they have some folders with project files for VS2003, VS2005 etc.

This seems to work even with their latest subversion checkouts.  I have no
idea how they maintain it.

www.ode.org


Also maybe I'm not understanding things, but if prebuild is good for
generating vsproj &/| .sln files, and nant is good for everything else, why
not call prebuild from nant, instead of the other way around?

-dan


--- Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:52:35PM +0200, Tleiades wrote:
> > A unified build system often means using the lowest common denominater. 
> > Meaning that we loose all the benefits of an IDE.
> 
> We currently have lowest common denominator.  It works enough for
> writing code, and is pretty broken when providing buildable source trees
> to end users.
> 
> >  If the windows people are to help write code, they need VS projects. I 
> > agree that prebuilt isn't the most advanced tool, but it does a decent
> job. 
> > Why not arrange a set of subfolders for the platform specific binaries,
> and 
> > provide a tool which will copy the correct version into the bin
> directory?
> 
> Again, madness. :)
> 
> > If a developer needs a specific platform, it will be his task to
> maintain 
> > the correct version of the binaries in svn.
> 
> Binaries shouldn't be in svn.  That is a short cut today, but only leads
> to lots of support questions on #opensim.  Growing the user and
> developer community means addressing those.
> 
> 	-Sean
> 
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