Re: Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

Jussi Pakkanen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Martin Hollmichel
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I started some time ago a cmake prototype for OOo in my spare time
>> (http://hg.services.openoffice.org/hg/cws/mh6bc/) for the latest status
>> please see the latest ReadMe.txt in the Source root for the most recent
>> status). You're invited to join this prototype, but be warned: it does not
>> work and kills your cat when try to run that :-).
>>     
>
> You might want to look look at my attempt:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ooo-build/2009-August/000181.html
>   
yes, thank you, I used and modified some of your work (add_idl_db and 
build_rdb_from db functions) and added a more modules (up to rsc now).
> It goes quite a lot further and solves some of the issues listed in
> your readme (detecting STLPort and Boost, etc).
for the moment the external libraries are not in my main focus,
>  There's also the dmake
> -> cmake converter script so you don't have to keep writing the files
> by hand.
>
>   
from what I've learned from cmake so far, it seems the best idea to do 
an 1:1 conversion since this might lead to too much targets (and thus 
dependencies) and writing CMakeLists.txt seem in some cases lead to more 
efficient makefiles.

one problem right now is that the usage of linker mapfiles (e.g. 
sal/util/sal.map) are not straight supported by cmake, unfortunately all 
the creation of several win32 import libraries are dependent to such 
mechanism, only some of the OOo Libs support the declspec(dllexport) or 
the Unix visibility mechanisms. so here some work is required.

Martin