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Re: GTK 2.21.3 changes includes paths [message #28828 is a reply to message #28827]

Sat, 18 September 2010 15:35

dolik.rce
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cbpporter wrote on Sat, 18 September 2010 14:00

As much as I dislike autotools and friends, maybe it is time to bite the bullet and use them for source based builds of U++?

I wouldn't go as far as using autotools, rather stay with the "friends" part Smile

Actually only thing needed is probably pkg-config to find out library and include paths. For source based builds it means just adding them in a command line argument to make. I could easily built them into the universal makefile (as optional, falling back to hardcoded paths in case of fail).

Even better would be to be able to use pkg-config inside theide. Let's say to allow lib/include paths with special syntax, e.g.:

$pkg-config --cflags-only-I gdk-pixbuf-2.0

Then on build every line starting with '$' would be treated as a command which would be executed and the result would be used by the builder when constructing the compile command.

What do you think?

Honza

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