Re: [hatari-devel] Problem with conftypes.py

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On sunnuntai 08 tammikuu 2012, Thomas Huth wrote:
> schrieb Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 08/01/2012 21:56, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > > Is there some way to get CMake to autogenerate conftypes.py
> > > when src/configuration.c (or python-ui/gentypes.py) changes?
> > > 
> > > All it would need to do is call:
> > > 	python-ui/gentypes.py<  src/configuration.c>
> > > 
> > > python-ui/conftypes.py
> > > 
> > > (For now I added a python-ui/Makefile I call manually to do that.)
> 
> Sure, have a look at src/uae-cpu/CMakeLists.txt, we're already doing
> similar things there. add_custom_command() should do the job.
> 
> > I guess it would be possible, except it would mean that when a user
> > build hatari but doesn't want to use the python-ui, gentypes.py would
> > be called nevertheless.
> > And as python is not mandatory to build Hatari per se, it would add a
> > dependancy on python, which doesn't seem right to me.
> 
> Since all the python UI build logic is (or at least should be) handled
> from python-ui/CMakeLists.txt already, and since we've got a
> python-check in the main CMakeLists.txt already and only include
> python-ui/CMakeLists.txt if python is available, there should not be any
> new problem here.

Hm.  I had already tried something like that and it seemed usability
wise worse than the Makefile I now run manually.

In light of Nicolas comment, I'll stick to current Makefile if it's
no problem.



	- Eero