On Thursday, 13 July 2023 at 04:04:54 BST, suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
Good, I was just trying to update configure.raw to add C++ version check & pkg-check for Qt5 :-)
Regards,
mpsuzuki
On 2023/07/13 11:30, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Not really a big fan of cmake/qmake/meson, I thought I'll give it a try, both to revise my makefile-fu, and perhaps as an educational tool for one of the gsoc people struggling with makefiles.
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> Here is a bare-minimum sketetal makefile for building ftinspect. It is written to be minimal, it builds, and the resulting binary seems to work, but since I have never used ftinspect, I don't know if the result does or does not work correctly.
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> Do "make -f ftinspect.mk", and if it finds all the QT5 bits on your system (a few variables towards the top, edit them yourself), it should just build ftinspect. There is a "make -f ftinpect.mk clean" target to clean up too.
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> The fragment is written with the idea that it can be eventually loadable by another. Current ft2-demo already do such for "./graph/rules.mk".
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> - ideally it should be "include"d somewhere in the middle of the main Makefile, like graph/rules.mk, and inherit the values of some of the variables (*CFLAGS).
> - adjusting paths (adds in some $(OBJ_DIR2)) and libtool adaptation (change the explicit $(CXX) comple/link actions with libtool $(COMPILE) abtractions).
> - remove the "clean" target and merge its work with the main one.
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> I'd be interested to know if the build binary is broken, or seems to do the job, either way.
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> Have fun adapting it...
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> I've been preparing an update to the Debian package of FreeType and
> realised ftinspect is limited to the meson build system only. Debian,
> by default, has always used autotools.
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> There are three build systems currently available for use in FreeType:
> autotools, cmake and meson. As I understand past discussions,
> autotools is the default (and fully supported).
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> If ftinspect and, potentially, other software is not going to be built
> via autotools, is there a case to move to another build system?
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> Hugh