[sldev] Easy build/Artwork tarball distribution

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Apr 23 09:36:55 PDT 2009


Robin Cornelius wrote:
> I still need to patch the cmake build rules in order to build
> with *no* artwork in tree at all

I was not aware of this goal when I made the changes.

 > but i'm guessing as everything is gearing up for
> artwork-common then the point release page will end up just source.

It seems that artwork-common has only a subset of the artwork.
Now one needs *both* artwork-common and the artwork zip file.
Does anyone know why?

> The way the source *almost* use to build was a warning was printed for
> no in tree artwork (although this seemed to be often broken and i did
> need a patch applied to make it work) and the build would continue.
> For linux builds this is certainly not a problem as there is no
> resource compiler so non of the artwork is embedded into anything.

This is why I thought the artwork was required.  It is on windows.

> I can quite easily add a cmake option to not error out when the
> artwork is not present, which i will do anyway and attach to a JIRA.

I already have some changes along these lines underway.  Currently it
can be an option only on Linux and Mac.  Windows requires art to build.

-Brad


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