[openmapi.org devel] Build System
Frederick Roth
frederick.roth at innovidata.com
Tue Aug 18 10:24:40 CEST 2009
Hi all,
the developer (Jain Ankit <jankit at novell.com>) agreed to add
documentation and will fix the Csc/CSC bug in the next commit. He agreed
with Johannes in the point that he thinks that every behavior that
differs from msbuild, should be reportet as a Bug.
If anybody wants he/she can try to convert the current Makefile (Fritz
did some performance enhancements on it) to a xbuild file. Bugs against
xbuild can be reported at https://bugzilla.novell.com (Product = Mono:
Tools, Component = xbuild) or directly by copying my bug by clicking the
following link:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/enter_bug.cgi?cloned_bug_id=531276
Fred
PS: Yes the novell bugzilla is really slow when you want to login
Frederick Roth wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> sure that, but until it is fixed a place to search for known issues
> would be really handy. I am in contact with the developer, we'll see
> what he is willing to do.
>
> I will keep you up to date when I get new information.
>
> Fred
>
> Johannes Roith wrote:
>> Hello, Fred!
>>
>> Still this is not a documentation issue. xbuild must be compatible to
>> msbuild. If this is not the case (or xbuild does crash) when
>> processing valid files, a bug report should be filed.
>>
>> Johannes.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Frederick
>> Roth<frederick.roth at innovidata.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Johannes,
>>>
>>> the problem is, that when you stick literally to the msdn documentation
>>> for msbuild, xbuild crashes without helping error messages.
>>>
>>> This is a state which I do not really like for a central and important
>>> tool like building.
>>>
>>> If it is not possible to copy the example from msdn literally there
>>> should be at least a working example on the xbuild homepage. I will try
>>> to get the developer to either document the differences to msbuild or
>>> eliminate those differences.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Fred
>>>
>>> Johannes Roith wrote:
>>>> Hello, Fred!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! This is good news, and, since xbuild is a clone of msbuild I
>>>> did not consider the issue to be much of a problem anyway. Microsoft
>>>> has very good documentation on msdn.
>>>>
>>>> Johannes.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Frederick
>>>> Roth<frederick.roth at innovidata.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I opened a bug report against xbuild about the missing documentation.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531276
>>>>>
>>>>> Now we at least have some usage help and the promise of a manpage.
>>>>>
>>>>> Additionally I found out what was the "error" in the .build file Achim
>>>>> provided. To compile you have to use the Csc task (with captial C at the
>>>>> beginning) maybe this is due to the unix bug of not ignoring case in
>>>>> filenames ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>
>>>>> Fred
>>>>>
>>>>> Achim Derigs wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Johannes!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Using xbuild/msbuild is difficult without any documentation:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ xbuild /?
>>>>>> No usage help yet
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at http://www.mono-project.com/Microsoft.Build doesn't make things better.
>>>>>> Far from it! It is the only explicit documentation about xbuild.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Implicit documentation may be found at:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/VisualStudio/microsoft.public.vsnet.general/2006-12/msg00090.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But that doesn't match. For example:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <Project DefaultTargets = "Compile"
>>>>>> xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" >
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <PropertyGroup>
>>>>>> <dllname>GoldParser</dllname>
>>>>>> </PropertyGroup>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <ItemGroup>
>>>>>> <CSFile Include = "lib/GoldParser/*.cs"/>
>>>>>> </ItemGroup>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <Target Name = "Compile">
>>>>>> <MSC
>>>>>> Sources = "@(CSFile)"
>>>>>> OutputAssembly = "$(dllname).dll">
>>>>>> <Output
>>>>>> TaskParameter = "OutputAssembly"
>>>>>> ItemName = "EXEFile" />
>>>>>> </MSC>
>>>>>> <!-- Log the file name of the output file -->
>>>>>> <Message Text="The output file is @(EXEFile)"/>
>>>>>> </Target>
>>>>>> </Project>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Results in:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ xbuild GoldParser.proj
>>>>>> XBuild Engine Version 0.1
>>>>>> Mono, Version 2.4.0.0
>>>>>> Copyright (C) Marek Sieradzki 2005. All rights reserved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Build started 8/14/2009 11:47:14 AM.
>>>>>> __________________________________________________
>>>>>> Project "/home/felfert/nmapi/GoldParser.proj" (Compile target(s)):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Target Compile:
>>>>>> System.Exception: Not registered task MSC.
>>>>>> at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskDatabase.GetTypeFromClassName (System.String classname) [0x00000]
>>>>>> at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildTask.get_Type () [0x00000]
>>>>>> at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildTask.InitializeTask () [0x00000]
>>>>>> at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildTask.Execute () [0x00000]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Build succeeded.
>>>>>> 0 Warning(s)
>>>>>> 1 Error(s)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Time Elapsed 00:00:00.0412230
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that we have to wait for better documentation and/or code quality for a start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Achim
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, 7. August 2009 17:31:01 Johannes Roith wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello, everyone!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would like to see the NMapi build script changed from Makefiles to
>>>>>>> msbuild/xbuild.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are three main reasons:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. People keep asking about how to build NMapi on Windows. Using
>>>>>>> xbuild/msbuild removes the unix dependency and also makes it possible to
>>>>>>> build from VisualStudio (which has also been requested multiple times).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. We are using several tools in the build process, including
>>>>>>> xslt-generated code, mlog (custom), preproc (custom) and, soon, mapimap.
>>>>>>> Using msbuild we can integrate these tools very nicely.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3. It is difficult or impossible to build silverlight or iphone apps
>>>>>>> without msbuild.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mono XBuild (msbuild) seems to be complete enough to be used use it now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, if you want to contribute to OpenMapi, this seems like a great
>>>>>>> opportunity to get involved!),
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Johannes.
>>>>>>>
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>>> Frederick Roth
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>>> 70825 Korntal/Stuttgart Cel. +49 170 7917742
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>>>
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