Re: [ft] Jam Build Tool

[suzuki toshiya]

Hi,

How about perforce's mailing list?
http://maillist.perforce.com/mailman/listinfo/jamming

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Chris Molozian wrote:
> Apologies if this is the wrong place: 
> http://www.freetype.org/jam/index.html
> 
> I couldn't find a dedicated mailing list for Jam and assumed that the 
> FreeType mailing list might contain developers that maintain or can help 
> with any Jam related queries.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On 21/05/11 00:11, Brady Duga wrote:
>> Ok, I'm confused. What's this got to do with FreeType?
>>
>> --Brady
>>
>> On May 20, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Chris Molozian <address@hidden 
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Not sure if this is the right place to ask these questions, I hope 
>>> the mailing list is still active. I'm trying to use Jam to build what 
>>> I believe is my fairly straight forward project (in the D programming 
>>> language). The goal of my build process is as follows:
>>>
>>>    1. Build the libllvm-c-ext.a (static) library from llvm/Target.cpp
>>>       and llvm/Ext.cpp. These are CPP FFI extensions to the D
>>>       bindings for LLVM.
>>>    2. Build the D source code for the codebase, link the LLVM library
>>>       and the bindings extension.
>>>
>>> In trying to achieve this goal, I've found a number of steps I'm not 
>>> sure how to do:
>>>
>>>     * Is it possible to direct the object files and static libraries
>>>       to be built in a dedicated build folder? The project structure
>>>       looks like this:
>>>
>>> -- ob2c
>>>   |-- src
>>>   |-- imports
>>>   |  |-- llvm/Target.cpp ...etc.
>>>   |     |-- c/Analysis.d ...etc.
>>>   |-- Jamfile
>>>
>>>     * Is it possible to override the "-o" flag passed to the c
>>>       compiler (which I'm tricking as the D compiler at the moment)?
>>>     * Is it possible to scan for all source files from a directory?
>>>
>>> At the moment my Jamfile looks like this:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> BUILDDIR = build ;
>>>
>>> CC = dmd ;
>>> CCFLAGS = -fPIC -O -inline -release -w -wi -od$(BUILDDIR) 
>>> -I./imports/llvm-2.9 ;
>>> LINK = $(CC) ;
>>> DFILES =
>>>     src/main.d ;    # should be scanned from src dir
>>>
>>> Objects $(DFILES) ;
>>> MainFromObjects ob2c : $(DFILES:S=.o) ;
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> The build output looks like this:
>>>
>>> /dmd -c -ofsrc/main.o   src/main.d
>>> dmd  -o ob2c  src/main.o
>>> Error: -o no longer supported, use -of or -od/
>>>
>>> Apologies for the long email, I wanted to give as much context as 
>>> possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> PS: If you can recommend a good book on Jam or some (extensive) 
>>> documentation that would be great. I can't find many articles on the 
>>> build tool.
>>>
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