512595 - experiment with a gyp project for spidermonkey

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Attachment: js.gyp, with lots of hardcoding for OS X

gyp (in the URL field) is a meta-build-system written by mento for chromium. You write JSON-like project datafiles, and then run gyp to generate platform-native project files (visual c++ project, xcode, scons, makefiles). Attached is a hack of a gyp file for spidermonkey.
Caveats:
* I hardcoded just enough to get it to build on OS X. This skips a lot of configure tests
* I skipped JIT for now
* I didn't handle the host programs that generate headers (jsautokw.h, jsautooplen.h). We'll need to figure out some other way to do those.
* I didn't handle building the shell
* I didn't do anything with the other configuration options like debug builds etc.

Interesting as a proof of concept, I think.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I think some things similar to bug 417044 would be helpful here. If we move all the CPU-specific bits into the source, that simplifies this quite a bit. Specifically, once you get an XCode project from this, you could build universal binaries very simply.