building.md

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Required packages

• cmake >= v2.8.7

• As of v0.7, the following are no longer used:

  • bison
  • flex

How to build

cd sc mkdir build cd build cmake .. # '..' is the path to the directory containing the top-level CMakeLists.txt make

Configuration options (append to the 'cmake ..' line):

• -DSC_BUILD_SCHEMAS="path/to/schema.exp;path/to/schema2.exp"

  • For each schema listed, this

    • generates c++
    • compiles it into a library
    • builds a 'p21read' program (see below)

  • Will also work with directories, as long as each directory has a single express file. Multiple files/directories are separated by semicolons.

• -DSC_BUILD_TYPE=[Debug|Release|RelWithDebInfo|MinSizeRel]

  • default is a Debug build
  • Release turns on optimizations and strips out debugging information
  • see also: cmake documentation for CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE

• The above options can be used from the CMake GUI as well - just look through the list of variables.

See Also: CMake variables

Create c++ for a schema manually:

mkdir build/schema_name cd build/schema_name ../bin/exp2cxx path/to/schema.exp

More details

For a walkthrough of the build process, see Build Process

For a description of the contents of the build/ dir, see Build Dir

More options are available - see Executables, and read comments in the various CMakeLists.txt files.