[hlc] automatic compilation with Ninja generator #726
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What's the status here? I'd be happy to give it a try! |
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Good enough to merge, not good enough to enable by default. Linux/macOS with an install in |
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Other setups (including Windows) now work too. |
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| final libflags = config.libs.map((lib) -> switch lib { | ||
| case "std": "-lhl"; | ||
| case "uv": '$prefix/lib/$lib.hdll -luv'; | ||
| case var lib: '$prefix/lib/$lib.hdll'; |
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An issue here on linux is that the libraries will always be loaded as this full path, so if the binaries are meant to be distributed as a relocatable set of binaries then it will fail to load it from $ORIGIN. This can be fixed if hdlls are always linked with --soname <name>.hdll, which is already the case with cmake but not with make. This would be a requirement for user made hdlls too.
Also, do we need additional -l flags for other hdlls like sdl etc?
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Yes the lack of soname/install name is a problem for relocatable builds, but let's leave that for another PR.
Also, do we need additional -l flags for other hdlls like sdl etc?
No, uv is the only one because the bindings use certain symbols from libuv directly.
The other libraries don't do that.
Ninja is a fast cross-platform build system designed for use-cases like this.
https://ninja-build.org/
Marking as a draft because this PR still needs some more testing to make sure it works on all platforms.