[opensource-dev] Is 'STANDALONE' confusing?

[Ima Mechanique]

> > > On 2011-03-03 1:45, Philippe (Merov) Bossut wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dropping privately built 3rd party libs though was always a bit of a 
> > > > black art. Now that most 3rd party libs have a public repo available 
> > > > at lindenlab/3p-<package> though, you have another possibility which 
> > > > is to build the package yourself and point autobuild.xml to it using a 
> > > > "file:///<path>" url (don't forget to also change the md5 hash...). 
> > > > That will extract libs and includes and drop them in 
> > > > build-<plat>/packages. I experimented with that in OPEN-6 and it works 
> > > > fine.
> > > 
> > > I'd really like to some experiences from open devs trying to use this 
> > > method.  Essentially, it means maintaining your own version of the 
> > > autobuild configuration file (either in autobuild.xml, being careful not 
> > > to include those changes in any changeset meant to be merged to 
> > > viewer-development, or by using a copy and pointing to the copy either 
> > > with a --config-file option to autobuild or with the 
> > > AUTOBUILD_CONFIG_FILE environment variable).
> > > 
> > > Even if you build your own prebuilds, you probably won't need to do it 
> > > very often - check them all out once, build each one, construct the 
> > > packages portion of the autobuild.xml file and then copy it into any 
> > > working copy you've got for doing viewer work.  The only time you should 
> > > need to rebuild any of them is when a package is modified either by you 
> > > or from upstream.
> > 
> > I spent 3-4 hours playing with this today. I started by updating local
> > copies of the 3p repoes,and was encouraged to see several commits for
> > VS2010 compatibility. That didn't last long though, as when I checked
> > the autobuild.xml files there was nothing in them for Windows users :-(
> > There are entries under platform claiming to be windows, but in reality
> > all but one appear to be for cygwin only, and I'm not sure about the
> > last. Cygwin really needs to be treated as a platform in its own right
> > here. Otherwise when the OS community creates *real* windows
> > configurations you will not be able to accept them because of a naming
> > conflict.
> > Not to mention it annoys Windows users to see a window entry and it
> > doesn't work. ;-)
> > 
> > I tried using the cygwin configs, but was unable to get any of them
> > working because of errors calling python scripts. Pretty sure the path
> > isn't being translated back into MSDOS style. I tried the note on the
> > https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Autobuild page, installing the module
> > and including the Script directory in path, but that didn't work either.
> 
> The note on https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Autobuild about installing
> autobuild in cygwin led to a total misunderstanding on my part. After
> someone pointed out to me that using cygwin directly was a no-go, I
> tried again with this yesterday. This time using a command prompt 
> (Windows SDK 7.1, currently the latest version).
> 
> Things went somewhat better. Several of the build-cmd.sh script had a
> "pass: unknown command" error, the "pass" command being at the end of
> the script. Those scripts that didn't have this problem couldn't perform
> a build as they use "devenv" to start building, which is not available
> on VCExpress. I was able to open some of the solutions in the IDE, which
> complained that parts were corrupt.  However, despite the corruption I
> was able to build a few libs from within the IDE.

To clarify, devenv.com is called in the
autobuild_tool_source_environment.py file.at lines 216, 233, and 235.


> I intend to continue some more with this to see if I can get it working
> better.
> 
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