[fpc-devel] The future of fpmake

[Darius Blaszyk]

On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

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> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
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>> On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:31 PM, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
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>>>> - managing debug/release builds (also cross-compiling)
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>>> What is failing in the current system for this ?
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>> I was thinking to be able to do something like :
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>>> fpmake build debug
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>> This will add some debug options to the build process. Also it should be possible to create a custom build profile.
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> And how would you do this ?
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> I don't want to complicate fpmake unnecessarily.
Improve the command line paring algorithm. It should check if there is something behind the build command line option. If so then it is a named build profile. In fpmake you could check the TDefaults.Profile property to determine which options to add.

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>>>> - cmake like system (display and store information on builds and test suites, etc)
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>>> fppkg should handle that part of the job, not fpmake.
>> To make fppkg work for my own project I need to add a fppkg.cfg to my project right?
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> There is no such thing as 'fppkg for a project', so I'm not sure what you mean here.
But I am talking about using fpmake for projects other than FPC. So the cdash (not cmake as I mistakenly wrote in the mail) idea should also work for standalone projects. 

Darius