[Clam-devel] croscompiler

[Dirk Griffioen]

Once more, a small update on setting up a crosscompiler

- clam: ok
- plugins: spacialization is ok, osc does not compile (has it been tried 
with another compiler?)
- networkeditor: builds

I also compiled boost, but not with all libraries as the crosscompiler 
needs to be updated to be able to compile
- errors: iostreams, math (one of the math libs)
- not tried: python, regex with icu, mpi

The question now is 'do we need/want a full boost version to ship with 
clam or do we ship just the things we need?'

- in the first case we need to update the crosscompiler to gcc 4.3 (but 
we might need this any way when we want to update the binaries)
- in the second case we just add what want/need now (many great libs are 
header only) and fix the rest later ...

What do you think?

Dirk


Some afterthoughts:

- experience has shown that running more than 1 compiler over a codebase 
makes it better (different compilers catch different bugs), and that the 
testfarm/continuous build should be run on platforms you ship for ...

- from seeing a bit more code, I think that using for instance the 
microsoft compiler is a lost case (it will need a lot!! of work); same 
maybe applies to the intel compiler



Dirk Griffioen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Small update:
>
> - libmad still breaks after applying the patch.
> - Xerces seems to be fine
> - gtk does not complete fully: I cannot find pkg-config in either the 
> gtk of gmm dir
>
> So, building locally breaks.
>
> I downloaded the binary package with more success:
> - clam now builds (compile, link to dll)
> - networkeditor or plugins do not build, sadly
>
> Maybe David can help me a little bit?
>
> Another question is 'what needs to be done for adding boost'?
> - boost does not use autconf/make/configure/scons, but it's own build 
> tool: http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/index.html
> - would compiling it with mingw, installing and then grab include/lib 
> be enough?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dirk
>
>
>
>> On Thursday 11 June 2009 18:35:51 dirk.griffioen wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> After first trying native compiling (microsoft & mingw - both are
>>> broken) I tried the crosscompile setup as I would like the opportunity
>>> to add boost.
>>>
>>> I wanted to setup anew because I don't want to break the existing one ...
>>>
>>> However, I am having problems with a few libs:
>>> - xerces does not finish because 'dllwrap' is not found
>>>     
>>
>> http://clam-project.org/wiki/Devel/Windows_MinGW_cross_compile#Xerces-C
>>
>> If that still gives you problems you can even disable it as long as you have 
>> libxml++ working.
>>
>>   
>>> - libmad does not compile because libtool goes wrong
>>>     
>>
>> Did you applied the pkg-config patch?
>>
>>
>>   
>>> Futher, the gtk setup chokes wine to death, so I tried it a couple more
>>> times - I think it is okay now ...
>>>
>>> The rest is fine, so if the other 2 work I would be interested to see
>>> how boost can be added.
>>>     
>>
>> Just proceed to install it with prefix in the sandbox and append the procedure 
>> you follow in the wiki page. Then we should add the proper configuration part 
>> in the scons script, we can do that together if you want.
>>
>>   
>>> (PS - I did setup in a virtual machine, so you can get a copy for your
>>> own crosscompiler)
>>>     
>>
>>
>>
>>
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