On 24/03/17 14:22, Daniel Stone wrote:
Hi Jose,
On 24 March 2017 at 14:03, Jose Fonseca <jfonseca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 22/03/17 20:57, Dylan Baker wrote:
Cross compiling for mingw is supported, and it provides a way to
differentiate
the build, host, and target machines [1], I've cross compiled for
aarch64-linux-gnu, and it was trivial (I've been told autotools has a flag
for
this, but the meson approach is to write an ini file once, and use it
again and
again), and the first example of cross compiling is using mingw from linux
[2].
[1]https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/wiki/Reference-manual#build_machine-object
[2]https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/wiki/Cross-compilation
Thanks for the info.
It still scares me a bit that most Meson users are mostly Linux focused.
That's not actually true ...
A lot of the reason GStreamer went towards Meson is because it has
native OS X (XCode project) and Windows (MinGW or Visual Studio
project) support. Meson's own source tree goes out of its way to use
spaces in directory and file names for its test suite, to make sure
that that support never breaks. Every build of Meson is CI'd on
AppVeyor as well as Travis for OS X. And of course, the GStreamer CI
uses Meson for its non-Linux builds.
It's true that a lot of the projects taking an interest of late have
been Linux, yes. But if you're native to Windows / OS X, you just use
VS/Xcode. There are (IMO) very few properly cross-platform projects
who are 'Windows projects with a port' or 'mainly OS X but also runs
on Linux', rather than cross-platform 'Linux projects'.
OK.
Another tool I heard good about but have not direct experience is
https://bazel.build . Any thoughts about it?
If you look at the FAQ, one of the first things you'll see is that
they don't properly support Windows. It also requires Java to run,
which I'd say would be a no-go if people are already complaining about
the impossibility of installing several megabytes of Python stdlib.
I see. Indeed.
Thanks. From the label on the tin, it does sound like Meson ticks a lot
of boxes then.
Like I said in another email, maybe mesademos is a good way to get our
feet wet.
I can't guarantee I'll be able to dedicate much time, but at least get
AppVeyor builds of it, since it has been a long objective of mine to get
mesademos/piglit/etc builds on AppVeyor instead of a private Jenkins server.
Jose
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