[ expat-Patches-538032 ] Borland Win32 project & makefiles
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Patches item #538032, was opened at 2002-04-01 16:07
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Category: Build Control
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Patrick McConnell (pmcconnell)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: Borland Win32 project & makefiles
Initial Comment:
Borland C++ Builder project file and make file for the
command line compiler to build expat.dll
Unzip the patch from the directory above expat, then
read the README.borland file for instructions.
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>Comment By: Karl Waclawek (kwaclaw)
Date: 2002-07-11 13:15
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> (Karl, any thoughts on moving the .DSP and .DSW
> files to win32\msvc6 ?)
Well, ideally I would like it symmetrical, i.e. all
the build files for the various targets should be
in separate directories on the same level.
It seems it is not that clear that we should have an extra
level for the OS, since Windows Dlls can be built on
VC6, BCB5 and Cygwin.
Also, the Make stuff may apply to various OSes
simultaneously. So, maybe we could have the Make stuff
at the top level, as we already have, and create one
child directory for each build target that needs special
treatment beyond Make. In other words, I am
thinking off a VC6 directory and a BCB5 directory directly
under the top level (I believe you already have a vms
directory like that).
Karl
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-07-11 13:01
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Regarding the clean and cleanall targets: You're right, the
new version of clean you describe would be better, and
"cleanall" should probably be named "distclean", and should
remove everything created in the process of running the
makefile (including DLLs, .LIB files, etc.).
The MSVC project works because the directories it needs are
all arranged the same way for both CVS checkouts and the
"installed" sources. You might want to look at
win32/MANIFEST.txt; it describes the layout of the installed
package on Windows. There is no equivalent of the win32
directory in the result; I'd imagined putting the BCB5
directory inside that. I think I could copy the directory
to Sources\BCB5 using the installer, but that makes it one
level closer to the top of the source tree in the installed
version than in CVS, which breaks the use of ..\.. references.
I like the idea of keeping the project files away from the
actual sources though. Perhaps I can change the MSVC
projects to work in a similar way, but I'm hesitant to make
so many changes to the structure just before tomorrow's release.
(Karl, any thoughts on moving the .DSP and .DSW files to
win32\msvc6 ?)
Would it be reasonable to adjust the files to work from
win32\bcb5, and only worry about them from CVS for now,
leaving them out of the installer in 1.95.4. Re-working the
project file layout can be done for 1.95.5, so it can be
given more thought.
Thanks!
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Comment By: Patrick McConnell (pmcconnell)
Date: 2002-07-11 12:31
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Fred,
The directory structure I used for the project files is copied
from easysoap and xerces-c. It is more than expat needs
at this point but if you start getting more and more ports to
other OS's and build tools it becomes necessary. For
example, your VC files could go into expat/proj/win32/VC6.
However, if you like, I can put everything into a directory
called BCB5 right under the expat root.
cleanall removes the executables, obj files and the build
directories. Instead of renaming it, I'll just create another
target called clean that only removes the obj files. I think
this is more standard. OK?
About the directory structure: I was assuming the cvs is
the same as the release structure. My build files are now
set up to put the binaries in "release" directories under the
various source directories (lib, examples, xmlwf and
gennmtab). Are you saying the installed directory structure
has all the source directories under src (or Source)? Also,
for the release, should all the binaries go into expat/win32?
I can do this no problem, just let me know.
I got the setup Im using now by translating the VC project
files into BCB format, so I figured it would be right, but I
never thought the installed structure would be different
from the cvs.
Patrick
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-07-10 23:02
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After a quick review:
I'd like to rename the "cleanall" target to simply "clean",
as this is a more common name for this function.
There appear to be many intermediate directories between the
top of the tree and the BCB5 directory; can this be reduced?
I'm also not sure if the expected structure is that
resulting from the installed version of the sources or just
the CVS checkout; it's largely the same, but slightly
different at the top (probably not in any relevant way). It
appears slightly tedious to make this work easily in both
tree structures, since the win32/ directory is not part of
the Source/ directory of the installed Expat package.
I still haven't had time to re-install my Windows
environment, so I can't yet install Borland's free
command-line compiler, so I'll need your guidance. ;-(
We are getting ready to release Expat 1.95.4 this coming Friday.
Marking this report "pending", awaiting your response.
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-07-10 21:29
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Re-opened and assigned to myself.
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Comment By: Patrick McConnell (pmcconnell)
Date: 2002-07-10 19:00
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Ahh, I didnt clue in that you wanted me to do something
previously. I have been keeping my proj and makefiles up
to date and have attached the latest. They should go into
expat/proj/win32/BCB5 (I did this instead of spreading
them around the directory tree to reduce clutter).
You can test it with the free Borland command line
compiler, the make files work with that.
http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cb
uilder.html
If you are getting close to a release and want to include this
I'll check it out on a daily basis. Im using the cvs files.
Patrick
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-07-09 16:31
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Closing due to non-responsiveness of the reporter and
generally not being able to bring this up to date.
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-05-31 18:39
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Well, I won't be able to install the C++ Builder demo on my Win2K
system since I don't have enough space on my system disk. ;-(
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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-05-31 00:04
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Does this need to be updated to reflect the header name change from
"config.h" to "expat_config.h"?
I don't think I'll have time to look at
this before 1.95.3; is this just a few additional files or do other files need
changing? I'll try to install the recent C++ Builder demo to try this out.
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