Add a simplistic "make install" target #85
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To really do this properly would probably mean setting up autoconf and/or automake, which doesn't sound like a ton of fun. This mimics a subset of what such a system would produce, which should make life easier for distribution packagers. This tangentally addresses google#53.
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Does the autoconf stuff you're working on need this or replace this? |
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It would replace this. |
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I have the autotools stuff working now, but haven't worked out how to get the tests back into it yet. Almost there. |
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Just wondering, what is the motivation for choosing Autotools over CMake? |
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To be completely honest I didn't give that a lot of consideration; it's just because I've used autotools a bit in the past and it seems like the universal lowest-common-denominator build system. Personally I'd prefer to use Bazel, but having a generic |
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libtool does make the autotools build pretty slick though; it correctly builds shared libraries with pkgconfig metadata on linux, macos, and probably a bunch of other platforms without further fiddling. |
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cmake does build visual studio files which might be useful. However last time I tried to build Jsonnet on msvc, it crashed the compiler... So probably best for people to use g++ on windows for now. Ditto on bazel -- it's nice but I think we'll need the fallback and then we'll have to maintain both and that would be a pain. I have fixed the integration tests btw, merge master to get that. |
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Just remembered that we do actually have a bazel BUILD file now... :) |
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I'll get back to the autotools project in a few days, I think. Might also try doing it with cmake to see how that goes. |
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The irony is Jsonnet is a great tool for describing builds :) |
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Heh, in that case Repobuild might be an appealing build system! (I'm not being serious, but you may find it amusing: it's like bazel, but uses JSON instead of a python-like dsl) |
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From Repobuild's README:
Now that's a bit of old history. :) Similarly, Kythe also had its own custom Campfire build system, which was also similar to BUILD but used JSON, before they fully switched to Bazel. |
To really do this properly would probably mean setting up autoconf
and/or automake, which doesn't sound like a ton of fun. This mimics a
subset of what such a system would produce, which should make life
easier for distribution packagers.