[Vm-dev] CMake for Windows?

[David T. Lewis]

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 04:14:47PM +0200, Geoffroy Couprie wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:56 AM, laurent laffont
> <laurent.laffont at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On linux, configure fails:
> > -- Configuring done
> > CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
> > ????Cannot find source file "aio.c". ??Tried extensions .c .C .c++ .cc .cpp .cxx
> > ????.m .M .mm .h .hh .h++ .hm .hpp .hxx .in .txx
> > aio.c is in??.unix/vm/aio.c
> 
> Thank you for your answer! It is fixed in the new set of files:
> http://eleves.ec-lille.fr/~couprieg/divers/changes-08-05-10.tar.gz
> 
> With these new files, I can now build the unix and win32 VM, from a
> linux host. The unix VM works, but the win32 one needs a few other
> changes to build, that I'll send with other patches.
> 
> A few notes:
> -to build, you have to delete config.h from platforms/win32/vm, as it
> is now generated by cmake
> -for unix, use 'platforms/cmake/configure --src=<generated source
> relative path> --version=4.0.2 --generator="Unix Makefiles" '
> -for win32, use 'CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++
> platforms/cmake/configure --src=<generated source relative path>
> --version=4.0.2 --host=i586-mingw32msvc --generator="Unix Makefiles" '
> 
> These files are not yet ready to be included in the sources, they
> still need some cleaning. But now, it works well :)
> 
> For the ones that were talking about setting up a squeak buildbot,
> this will be useful!
> 
> Again, please test it, and feel free to comment.

Geoffroy,

I have not tried your CMake build yet (sorry), but building a range
of Windows and Unix VMs on a single build host sounds like a very
useful thing. Well done! I'm curious what others think of the idea.

Dave