On Jun 8, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Bruno Winck wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am on the process to resume my work on Inkscape I did about css.
I was using svn, now I have a new computer so I start again fresh with bazaar, so far so good. Since its running Windows 7 x64 I decided to give a try to mingw64. Compiling btool went fine, however when running it allocated 4 gig of memory and stalls. A quick look didn’t help figure out what could be the cause and now I revert to x32.
Now I wonder what is the ground of using btool today. Is it still a necessity ? Other projects compile both on Windows and Linux without any specific tool. It would also help to benefit from a real incremental build.
Actually most projects do use some build tool of one form or another. At the moment the main candidate for cross-platform building is cmake.
There has been some effort at exploring this, but the main cmake developers have said it should be a straightforward to move to.
We've looked into a few different tools, but the others have various blocking issues.