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/Ma...

For more technical information see:

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

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

[Steven Edwards]

--- Casper Hornstrup [e-mail] wrote:
> 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.

Heh no way man. I was too much of a ass so don't thank me.

I would just like to let everyone know that we are going to be breaking the external subsystems
and rosapps by switching to rbuild. My plan is to overhaul rosapps at somepoint to be fully
standalone. We can either make it use rbuild or use the rules.mak and helper.mk from the old
buildsystem and maybe duplicating some tools. I don't really care about compile times in rosapps
so I don't think it will be worth switching to rbuild but if someone wants to disagree I am not
going to fight over it.

Once we get rbuild in the trunk I would like to see if we can tight distcc and ccache in with it
as well for rbuild 2.0

Thanks
Steven

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[Jason Filby]

Thanks for all your work on this Casper!
On 5/19/05, Casper Hornstrup [e-mail] wrote:> 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.

[Mark Junker]

Casper Hornstrup schrieb:
> 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:

I just downloaded this branch and it looks very promising. Building the 
trunk succeeded but I'm somewhat confused. It seems that it doesn't 
create the final ISO images. What can be the problem? Not implemented 
yet? Or was it unable to find the necessary tools?

Regards,
Mark

[Mark Junker]

Mark Junker schrieb:
> It seems that it doesn't create the final ISO images. What can be the 
> problem? Not implemented yet? Or was it unable to find the necessary 
> tools?

Sorry, forget it ... my fault.

Regards,
Mark

[Mike Lerwill]

Hi,

I have tested the new build system and had to make the attached changes to
"reactos\tools\rbuild\rbuild.mak"  before I was able to build the entire
tree.

I don't know if the changes are correct but "work for me" before the changes
I was seeing path components run together without separators.

regards

Mike Lerwill

-----Original Message-----
  From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]On
Behalf Of Casper Hornstrup
  Sent: 19 May 2005 21:33
  To: 'ReactOS Development List'
  Subject: [ros-dev] New build system ready for trunk

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/Ma
kefile

For more technical information see:

http://svn.reactos.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/branches/xmlbuildsystem/reactos/to
ols/rbuild/rbuild.txt

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

[Casper Hornstrup]

Your patch is correct.

_____

From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Mike Lerwill
Sent: 28. maj 2005 12:20
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: RE: [ros-dev] New build system ready for trunk

Hi,

I have tested the new build system and had to make the attached changes to "reactos\tools\rbuild\rbuild.mak"  before I was able to
build the entire tree.

I don't know if the changes are correct but "work for me" before the changes I was seeing path components run together without
separators.

regards

Mike Lerwill

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Casper Hornstrup
Sent: 19 May 2005 21:33
To: 'ReactOS Development List'
Subject: [ros-dev] New build system ready for trunk

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/Ma...

For more technical information see:

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

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

[Martin Fuchs]

> 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.autoand run make again.

Just a little idea:
Could you please insert a target named "depends" in the main makefile, which 
just does this:
  delete makefile.auto
 make all
 Regards,
  Martin

[Casper Hornstrup]

I've added this. You can also specify a target to build. E.g. make depends setupapi.

_____

From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Martin Fuchs
Sent: 28. maj 2005 12:31
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] New build system ready for trunk

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.

Just a little idea:

Could you please insert a target named "depends" in the main makefile, which just does this:

delete makefile.auto

make all

Regards,

Martin

[Casper Hornstrup]

I forgot to tell you that a newer GNU make that can handle order-only prerequisites is needed (3.80 should do). I have been unable
to find a solution for older makes.

_____

From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Casper Hornstrup
Sent: 19. maj 2005 22:33
To: 'ReactOS Development List'
Subject: [ros-dev] New build system ready for trunk

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/Ma...

For more technical information see:

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

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