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[Klaus Thoeni <klaus.thoeni@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Anton,

good move indeed!

I think you should mention that "CMake 2.8 or higher is required". Correct?

Cheers,
Klaus

On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:30:07 AM Anton Gladky wrote:
> Dear users and developers,
> 
> if you looked after my last commits, you have probably payed attention
> on changes in cmake-build. Cmake is a cross-platform, open-source system
> widely used today for many open-source projects to handle build-process.
> 
> I am going to replace scons build-system, which is used in yade last
> several years. The reason is to escape complicated and "hacked"
> style of SConstruct-files in the project, which is hard to maintain.
> 
> CMake should prolong the life of yade without any changes from the
> "build-side". Also we will hopefully get better portability of the program
> on
> different platforms.
> 
> I want to ask everybody to test precisely the new build-system before we
> drop scons-files.
> 
> Cmake is working differently, other than scons. It builds its files
> not in the same
> folder, where is the source. So, you have to create a separate
> "build-place" for you. Like in scons, you should point the place, where
> the files will be installed.
> 
> 1. Create a build place (a folder)
> 
> 2. go into that folder
> 
> 3. run in command line:
>     cmake -DINSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/installfolder /path/to/sources
> 
> 4. Read, what is the written at the end of configure-process. You will
> see there,
>     which yade-modules are enabled and disabled.
>     If you want to enable/disable some modules, you should add to cmake
> command line the following variables:
>     -DENABLE_GUI=ON    (or OFF)
>     -DENABLE_VTK=ON    (or OFF)
>     -DENABLE_OPENMP=ON    (or OFF)
>     -DENABLE_GTS=ON    (or OFF)
>     -DENABLE_GL2PS=ON    (or OFF)
> 
>      All modules are ON by default. But if you do not have necessary
> packages in your
>      system, some of them will be disabled by CMAKE. You will get a
> notice about that.
> 
>      Other parameters:
>      -DDEBUG=ON (OFF by default)   create debug-build
>      -DSUFFIX=MYVERSION  (by default - git revision)  create suffix
>      -DNOSUFFIX=ON (OFF by default)  do not create suffix for yade
> (like yade-git-1234565)
>      -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON (OFF by default)  show an additional
> info during build
> 
> 5. Type in command line
>     make
> 
>     And wait, when the process is finished. Alternatively you can
> indicate how much cores,
>     you want to use. For example:
>     make -j4
> 
>     Please, pay attention, yade requires approximately 2GB RAM/core.
> 
> 6. Install:
>     make install
> 
> For GUI-option on Debian/Ubuntu-systems, please install 2 additional
> packages: sudo apt-get install libxmu-dev libxi-dev
> 
> I have disabled chunkSize option for the moment. Yade has always
> problems with a huge consumption
> of RAM (especially on build-servers) during the compilation.
> 
> I would like to ask everybody to test it and give a feedback.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Anton
> 
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