[ros-dev] New build system ready for trunk

[Casper Hornstrup]

Hi.

 

I believe the new build system is ready to replace the current build system in trunk.
Unless there are objections, I plan on merging
the branch to trunk in the weekend of 27 - 29 of may.

 

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone that helped make this possible -
especially Royce Mitchell III, Ge van Geldorp,
and Steven Edwards.

 

It would be nice if you could checkout the branch and check that the features you
can't live without are still there so we can have
them ready before the merge. If you have major new feature requests that are not
essential, I'd like to put them on hold until after
the merge. To checkout the branch do a:

 

svn co svn://svn.reactos.com/branches/xmlbuildsystem/reactos

 

For a list of environment variables that controls the build see:

http://svn.reactos.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/branches/xmlbuildsystem/reactos/M…

 

For more technical information see:

http://svn.reactos.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/branches/xmlbuildsystem/reactos/t…

 

This is not a 100% solution to our dependency problems though. There can still be
corner-cases where it is needed to manually clean
some files, but it will be needed a lot less than today. Also in order to have acceptable
performance, we cannot check dependencies
on every included file on each make invocation. Therefore, this is currently only checked
each time the automatically generated
makefile (makefile.auto) is regenerated. Makefile.auto is regenerated each time a build
system file (*.xml) is modified. If you need
to check the dependencies on files not specified in the build system files "automatic
dependencies", then delete makefile.auto and
run make again.

 

Casper