493609 - add make building for builtins for ease of building in artifact clean branches

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Build Config, defect)

Comment 1

[Tommy Reilly]

Attachment: make rules for builtins

Comment 2

[Steven Johnson]

Comment on attachment 378103 [details] [diff] [review]
make rules for builtins

we should leave this open, because:

-- we should offer a way to move the files out of core, as that's problematic for Flash

-- would be nice to add similar build rules for win & mac IDEs someday

Comment 3

[Tommy Reilly]

+1 we should have no generated files in hg IMHO

Comment 4

[Lars T Hansen]

(In reply to comment #3)
> +1 we should have no generated files in hg IMHO

I disagree somewhat, it is beneficial to be able to build Tamarin on platforms that have a C compiler without requiring Java SE 1.5+ to be present as well in order to run ASC.  (After all we have eval :-) Thus the ABCs should be in the Tamarin tree.

Comment 5

[Steven Johnson]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I disagree somewhat, it is beneficial to be able to build Tamarin on platforms
> that have a C compiler without requiring Java SE 1.5+ to be present as well in
> order to run ASC.  (After all we have eval :-) Thus the ABCs should be in the
> Tamarin tree.

We already have (effectively) a requirement for Python to build, due to nativegen.py. Adding Java doesn't seem like that heinous a requirement.

Comment 6

[Lars T Hansen]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > I disagree somewhat, it is beneficial to be able to build Tamarin on platforms
> > that have a C compiler without requiring Java SE 1.5+ to be present as well in
> > order to run ASC.  (After all we have eval :-) Thus the ABCs should be in the
> > Tamarin tree.
> 
> We already have (effectively) a requirement for Python to build, due to
> nativegen.py. Adding Java doesn't seem like that heinous a requirement.

The nativegen.py requirement assumes your conclusion.  I'm saying that it would be good to be able to check out a tree and build it with a C++ compiler.  If the build does not need to run nativegen.py, which is what I'm suggesting, then python won't be required, I think.

Comment 7

[Tommy Reilly]

This bug was fixed but was left open for bogus scope creep reasons, closing.