[Traverso-devel] Build system updates, cmake

[Remon]

Hello all (and dev's in particular)

I've installed Ubuntu Gutsy this week, and it works great :)
Not that it's something you like to know hehe.

But for some reason, the arch program is gone, and I had to change it too 
uname -m in base.pri to detect the architecture (for setting the 
corresponding compilation flags)

Besides that, instead of doing usefull things, like fixing the tons of bugs 
that are left, I added support for compiling Traverso with cmake, which 
stands for Cross platform make.

It's a powerfull tool, with which we can check in a very simple way if all the 
needed headers and libraries are installed, it has a simple 'GUI' to 
enable/disable certain compile options, like debug, alsa/jack support, 
install path etc. Of course a command line tool, basically one runs cmake . 
and after that, running make is sufficient.
Another very nice thing is that it has a dependency checker, so when you 
change a header file (say AudioDevice.h) then all the files in the _whole_ 
project that include this header are rebuild, and libraries/executables that 
are affected are relinked.
I think this is one of the biggest complaints when it comes to the current 
build system, and well, that should be solved now :)

It's still a local and experimental tree, but if you like to try it out 
(specifically for the Mac OS X packagers), then I'll happily send a tarball 
once the remaining bits from the current build system are ported to the cmake 
one.

There are modules for building for linux, Mac OS X (framework stuff, XCode 
projects etc) and even a module for Windows packaging......
Anyway, see here for the packaging stuff: 
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators

And here for the rest:
http://cmake.org/HTML/Documentation.html

Have a nice weekend!

Remon