| Re: [cdt-core-dev] Ant builder |
Hi Doug, I'm not ready to give you full specification now (just because I started to work on it recently and it is not the only thing I'm doing now:-))). First, there is an ant-contrib project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/) that works on this direction. I haven't played a lot with it. It is based on ability to expand ant by writing user tasks. Maybe we have to take useful things from this project. From the first glance I see the following disadvantages : - it doesn't know anything about Eclipse - for each compiler it uses specific task provider Advantage of user task approach: we can extensively use Eclipse builder features (resource deltas for instance). Of course in this case almost everything is in our hands - we can control all the build process. In order to test ant feasibility for C project build purpose I tried to create a simple test which is based completely on ant xml description (without additional Java code), but at the same time can be useful enough. It was a big surprise for me that I could to do it easy. Attached you can find an example of ant-based project. It is already generic enough to adjust itself to different project configuration using set of source file and directory structure. There is a similarity with a regular make approach, but for me ant build file is much more clear. What I like in this is a maximal using of ant's features without providing additional java-written extensions. It can dramatically simplify support of product. On the other hand, I cannot estimate now the performance of such builder. This is important because it can be a bottleneck for big projects. It would be great if you as well share your ideas about this issue. Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Schaefer, Doug" <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:56 AM Subject: RE: [cdt-core-dev] Ant builder > Hi Alex, > > Ant is a great example of an alternative build approach and will make sure > we don't get too make-centric. > > I have used ant for building Java projects but haven't used it for C/C++ > projects. Could you provide a description of how you are thinking of > applying ant in the CDT context? I want to make sure we consider this as we > consolidate requirements. > > Thanks, > Doug Schaefer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Chapiro [mailto:achapiro@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:43 PM > To: cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [cdt-core-dev] Ant builder > > FYI. > > I'm working on implementation of ant builder - alternative to make approach. > > Alex Chapiro. > > _______________________________________________ > cdt-core-dev mailing list > cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cdt-core-dev > _______________________________________________ > cdt-core-dev mailing list > cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cdt-core-dev >
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