Windows build question: Filesystem layout

[Anton Lundin]

On 27 January, 2017 - Stefan Fuchs wrote:

> Am 27.01.2017 um 16:05 schrieb Dirk Hohndel:
> >
> >>>> beside my real issue I have one other question:
> >>>>
> >>>> I followed the directions in INSTALL and mxe-based-build.sh and I now
> >>>> have the following filesystem layout:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> └── src
> >>>>   ├── grantlee
> >>>>   ├── install-root
> >>>>   ├── libdivecomputer
> >>>>   ├── libgit2
> >>>>   ├── marble-source
> >>>>   ├── subsurface	<-- source from git
> >>>>   └── win
> >>>>       ├── grantlee	<-- copy from one level above
> >>>>       ├── libcurl
> >>>>       ├── libdc
> >>>>       ├── libdivecomputer	<-- copy from one level above
> >>>>       ├── libgit2	<-- copy from one level above
> >>>>       ├── libssh2
> >>>>       ├── marble-source <-- copy from one level above
> >>>>       ├── mxe
> >>>>       ├── subsurface	<-- source from git
> >>>>       └── win32	<-- windows build dir
> >>>>
> >>>> So I have a few things twice like subsurface branch, libdivecomputer,
> >>>> libgit2,... and I need to maintain also the source code twice.
> >>>> But a comment in mxe-based-build.sh is saying:
> >>>>
> >>>> # This makes some assumption about the filesystem layout based
> >>>> # on the way things are setup on my system so I can build Ubuntu PPA,
> >>>> # OBS and Windows out of the same sources.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> What did I do wrong? What is maybe obsolete or wrong in my filesystem
> >>>> layout?
> >>> Doesn't seem wrong to me. The directories under 'src' are the sources,
> >>> the ones under 'win' are the build directories.
> >>>
> >> But isn't it that "win32" is the build directory and I have the source
> >> (from git) two times? I added more specificly what I have above in the
> >> tree...
> > Sorry, you are (mostly) correct. Again, this script is based on a layout
> > that I use, and when I check on the server I do indeed have duplications
> > in there - I could try claiming that this was to be able to have different
> > versions of these libraries for Windows, but I think it was mostly so that 
> > I had a self-contained set of directories that I could try and build from.
> >
> >
> Ok, understood.
> So that means it is also ok to merge everything more flat together to
> really have only one source for both linux and windows?
> 
> Like this:
> 
> └── src
>   ├── grantlee
>   ├── install-root
>   ├── libdivecomputer
>   ├── libgit2
>   ├── libcurl
>   ├── libssh2
>   ├── marble-source
>   ├── subsurface	<-- source from git
>   ├── mxe
>   └── win32   <-- windows build dir
> 


A bit OT, but anyway.

We could unify the infrastructure a bit between the different build
environments. 

There is quite a bit of duplication between those. IE, only one file
containing versions of our 3pp, and only download one source tar-ball.


It might be a fools eran, but for a autobuilder setup, it would probably
help.


//Anton


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