Changeset 1533df4e58a8be63905b8a6a4a547159d425eaf9

Timestamp:

03/04/10 07:35:19 (2 years ago)

Author:

Philip Herron <redbrain@…>

Parents:

06f222065c8e7b41cd32db86bff506aacf79b4e1

Children:

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git-committer:

Philip Herron <redbrain@Philip-Herrons-MacBook.local> / 2010-03-04T07:35:19Z+0000

Message:

more cmake documentation in readme.cmake

Files:

• README.cmake (modified) (3 diffs)

README.cmake

@@ -8 +8 @@
 
 Its merit is that it can help port software to windows, since to have
-a nice native build on windows its prefered to use MSVC, and not reverting
-to CYGWIN. This may also be useful to Mac OSX users wanting to use Xcode,
-which i want to support so we can access mac osx frameworks easier. But
-in the end Cmakes is _only_ useful for Windows and MacOSX, but really i
-support *BSD, *linux, *solaris are my main interests in operating systems!
+a nice native build on windows its prefered to use MSVC(cl.exe+link.exe),
+and not reverting to CYGWIN. This may also be useful to Mac OSX users 
+wanting to use Xcode, which i want to support so we can access mac osx 
+frameworks easier. But in the end Cmakes is _only_ useful for Windows 
+and MacOSX, but really i support *BSD, *linux, *solaris are my main 
+interests in operating systems!
 
 Like it or not Autoconf+Automake are the STANDARD, and they work beautifly
-it wasn't untill i saw Drizzle (http://drizzle.org) i really understood
+it wasn't until i saw Drizzle (http://drizzle.org) i really understood
 what a build system should do for developers and with Monty Taylors work
 on Pandora i hope this is open up Autotools for more people. Cmake just
@@ -37 +38 @@
 To build crules with cmake:
 
-* Linux:
+** Linux/Unix:
+---------------
 # get the sources git clone... or wget a release etc..
 $ cd crules
@@ -43 +45 @@
 $ make
 
-More info to come soon!
+** Mac OSX + XCode
+-------------------
+# install cmake use the shell cd to the toplevel source dir
+# of crules
+$ cmake -G Xcode .
+# open Xcode and file->open-project there should be an xcode
+# project file that xcode can open! Now you can work away in
+# xcode if you prefer
+
+** Windows (7) + MSVC 9.0/nmake
+--------------------------------
+# install cmake + MSVC express edition
+# install gnuwin32 flex + bison
+* http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bison.htm
+* http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/flex.htm
+# add the C:\Program Files\gnuwin32\bin to your system PATH
+# test this by opening a command prompt
+$ bison.exe ...
+$ flex.exe
+# if they work your half way
+$ cd to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC
+# vssetenv.bat to set the envoirment variables for using cl.exe
+# in the shell. Test by exec cl.exe
+$ cd to the crules sources
+---------
+* For nmake simply:
+$ cmake .
+$ nmake
+* for Visual Studio
+$ cmake -G <generator-string> . # see cmake --help for the correct generator string
+$ open the workspace file
+
+
+NOTE (Windows only):
+--------------------
+I need more time to fix up the windows builds using m4.exe on windows doesn't seem to like the
+windows style paths and flex and generating the lexer and parser seems to fail. I have only tested
+this on Windows 7 so far also but there shouldn't be a problem on other win32. If your using cygwin
+it would be prefered to using GCC/mingw and autoconf see README follow those build instructions.