[Vm-dev] Setting up a VMMaker image

[Igor Stasenko]

2009/11/11 Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>:
> 2009/11/11 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
>>
>> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is a linker issue; freetype.a isn't included in the final VM link
>>>> which
>>>> it needs if you want to make FT2Plugin internal. I'm not sure how to deal
>>>> with it in the long term, for now you can add the following line to
>>>> winbuild/Makefile (after the STDLIBS definition):
>>>>
>>>> STDLIBS += ../platforms/win32/plugins/FT2Plugin/freetype.a
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah.
>>> The solution is to change the main makefile to include
>>> 'makefile.extras' (if it exists), which should be located in plugin
>>> dirs,
>>> so in such  'makefile.extras' one could write:
>>>
>>> STDLIBS += ../platforms/win32/plugins/FT2Plugin/freetype.a
>>>
>>> but i don't remember the syntax for file inclusion, and not sure that
>>> make utility in Win32-Tools-1.2.zip  supports includes.
>>
>> This exists and is actually already used by the external build of the
>> FT2Plugin (see platforms/win32/plugins/FT2Plugin/Makefile). The issue is
>> that a custom Makefile isn't included by default for the main VM build
>> (because it includes Makefile.plugin in return) so it's a bit of classic
>> recursive Makefile invocation / inclusion nightmare. Are there any decent
>> alternatives to make these days? (by "decent" I mean small and to the point,
>> not requiring megabytes of additional installation crap)
>>
> no no.. include but not call.
>
oh ... wait , i see FT2Plugin uses include already :)

well, if all custom makefiles were ment to be included into main
makefile at first place, then you won't need
to include the Makefile.plugin in
platforms/win32/plugins/FT2Plugin/Makefile, isnt?


Concerning alternatives, we having OSProcess... so it is possibly to
write and run a build process (or just generate a makefiles)
using VMMaker. I think this would be much better, simpler & leaner
comparing to hand-crafted makefiles with ugly & bogus syntax, shell
discrepancies and so on... :)

>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
>>
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> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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