U++ forum: Welcome to the forum

Re: Ultimate++ vs Wxwidgets for desktop linux/windows/mac app [message #57290 is a reply to message #57289]

Fri, 25 June 2021 16:04

germandiago
Messages: 14
Registered: June 2021
Location: Valencia

Promising Member

Hello again Mirek,

I did not know all the links. That is exactly what I need in order to prepare packages, I think.

I have little time to invest, hence my question for the man-hours effort. I will try some experiment but I cannot commit dates yet, I will keep in touch if I have something to show, and be sure that if I have, I will package it conveniently for others to be able to use it.

The best return on investment is to prepare a Conan recipe to be able to consume U++ (at least the GUI subset and the dependencies it drags) from CMake/Meson.

Reasons to choose this strategy of Conan packaging (mentioned in previous post), but I repeat (and add) here:

- it does not need changes to the build system (or it would need minimal changes, if it does).
- it does not need additional Meson build system maintainance, only a recipe on top of the existing build system.
- it makes things available in CMake/Meson and even MsBuild/autotools (modulo bugs) because Conan tries to integrate with all of those
and, as far as my knowledge goes, tries to be build-system agnostic for the ones it has no integration with.

So, yes, I will give it a try but I cannot commit dates. It would be, hopefully, some time during summer.

I have previous experience creating Conan recipes but I have zero experience with U++ build system, it is there where I would have some questions to be able to package a recipe in conditions to be consumed.

I would do this:

- target the latest release (2021.1?) since using a static version avoids doing work on top of a moving target. All via Github would be ok?
- basic debug/release packages. The more conventional (and widely consumable), the better.
- upload to conan center or bincrafters pre-packaged artifacts.

From there, Conan can build more stuff for specific needs/flags, but I would leave that as a second thought if it creates bad interactions with the current build system and focus on the basics. Better 2 things working well than 5 mid-working. Smile

Thanks for your feedback!

[Updated on: Fri, 25 June 2021 16:15]

Report message to a moderator