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How to proceed? I've added a page to the wiki:
http://awiki.tomasu.org/bin/view/Main/AllegroBuildSystem
Maybe those in the know can jot down the pros and cons for each system.
Pete
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:18, Chris wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 02:45 am, Hein Zelle wrote:
> > Does an scons build file require 'endusers' to install software
> > (scons) to build allegro, or is it a system that generates a makefile
> > and configure script which can be run by the user without installing
> > any further software (apart from make)?
>
> No, it requires scons installed on the person who's compiling's system, and
> doesn't generate/use makefiles (though you can use makefiles to invoke
> scons, it still needs to be installed).
>
> CBuild doesn't rely on anything being installed, except a compiler, and
> could probably work for Allegro, now that I think about it (once it drops
> the assembly stuff anyway, or until I add in compile commands for other
> extensions.. and I find out how to detect other platforms besides Unix and
> Windows). CBuild is all stored in a single 47KB source file, which is
> self-compiling in sh-shells, and is easilly distributable. You can even
> make a simple makefile to compile the cbuild executable for systems that
> can't run the source file.
>
> However, I'd really need someone to look over the code if you're at all
> interested in using it for Allegro. Firstly, to look over the code (the
> only "questionable" functions it uses are snprintf (for which I have it set
> to use _snprintf in MSVC) and setenv/unsetenv (for which I have wrappers
> for Win32), AFAIK), and make sure it's stable/compatible enough.
>
>
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