Re: 'Amalgamated' source code

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: 'Amalgamated' source code
Date	2017-01-05 08:33 +1300
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On 01/ 5/17 06:15 AM, bart4858@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:30:04 UTC, Jorgen Grahn  wrote:
>> On Tue, 2017-01-03, BartC wrote:
>>> Interesting article here on converting large projects into just a
>>> few source files:
>>>
>>> https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/improving-open-source-with-amalgamation-cf293592c5f4#.jzgq6ppvn
>>
 >> His message seems to be that it's hard to compile software because of
>> library dependencies.  And (it's not clear how this is related) he
>> wrote a tool which takes the zlib sources and turn them to one
>> source file and one header, so he can copy & paste it into his
>> projects.
>>
>> It doesn't make sense to me, at all.  The problem of building a C
>> program from N source files was solved by make, 40 years ago.  My
>> best guess is it's some kind of problem endemic to Windows (which I
>> don't write code for, but I understand it's not very C-friendly).
>
> There are a number of problems, some of which are mentioned, such as
> that people use different build systems, different compilers, or want
> to incorporate an open-source project into their own application.
>
> Otherwise it means merging one lot of incomprehensible gibberish (the
> third party make file) into another (your project), to say nothing of
> combining two lots of configure scripts. That's assume they are both
> happy to work with /any/ compiler, or the imported project will work
> with yours.

The project I'm currently working on incorporates a number of open 
source projects in the build and we use premake and ninja to build 
everything.  There is one premake configuration script we maintain, the 
tools do the rest.

We build for Linux, Windows and embedded arm.

-- 
Ian

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'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-03 15:14 +0000
  Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 08:47 -0800
    Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-03 19:47 +0000
      Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 12:48 -0800
        Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-03 21:36 +0000
          Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 16:01 -0800
            Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-01-03 16:26 -0800
              Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 18:00 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-04 03:34 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-04 03:31 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-04 12:03 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-04 05:00 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 02:38 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-05 14:28 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-05 08:20 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-05 17:05 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-05 10:11 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-05 19:46 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 12:15 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-05 21:54 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-05 17:40 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-05 19:33 +0000
            Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-04 10:53 +0000
          Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-04 01:51 +0000
        Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-04 11:54 +0000
          Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-04 05:57 -0800
            Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-04 14:20 +0000
            Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-04 15:07 +0000
              Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-04 15:34 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-04 08:03 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-04 17:09 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code bart4858@gmail.com - 2017-01-04 08:54 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-04 17:22 +0000
              Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-04 07:55 -0800
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-05 18:04 +0000
                Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 11:50 -0800
  Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2017-01-04 16:29 +0000
    Re: 'Amalgamated' source code bart4858@gmail.com - 2017-01-04 09:15 -0800
      Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-05 08:33 +1300
        Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-04 20:26 +0000
          Re: 'Amalgamated' source code supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-04 13:09 -0800
          Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-05 10:21 +1300
            Re: 'Amalgamated' source code supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-04 13:51 -0800
            Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-04 22:02 +0000
              Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-05 11:15 +1300
      Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2017-01-07 06:38 +0000
        Re: 'Amalgamated' source code BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-07 11:35 +0000
    Re: 'Amalgamated' source code supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-04 09:53 -0800
    Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-01-04 11:50 -0800
    Re: 'Amalgamated' source code raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-01-10 01:34 +0000
      Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-01-10 01:59 -0800
      Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2017-01-10 06:55 -0600
      Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-01-10 14:48 +0000
  Re: 'Amalgamated' source code Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 07:17 -0700

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