[lldb-dev] Is anyone using the LLDB CMake standalone build?

[Vince Harron]

> The main motivation for having a standalone build is that it's a
necessary (but not necessarily sufficient) precursor to having a usable
xcode solution, which is itself a necessary (but again perhaps not
sufficient) precondition to moving towards a single build system.

I've always assumed that the reason the apple guys don't generate their
xcode projects from cmake is that there is some magic in the xcode projects
that isn't supported by cmake-xcode project generator.  Is there any truth
to that?

What is the intended purpose of the LLDB CMake standalone build?  If it is
to build against an installed clang/llvm, it doesn't seem like it's worth
the extra complexity...

Vince


On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:

> I'm not using the standalone build on Windows, i just suffer through
> opening a mega solution. Reid did some work recently to make it better, but
> it still doesn't totally support anyone's needs.
>
> The main motivation for having a standalone build is that it's a necessary
> (but not necessarily sufficient) precursor to having a usable xcode
> solution, which is itself a necessary (but again perhaps not sufficient)
> precondition to moving towards a single build system.
>
> I'm not versed enough in the LLVM core shared CMake infrastructure, but I
> envision a world where supporting a standalone build requires almost 0
> project specific CMake code. Sadly, achieving that seems quite difficult
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:22 AM Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I thought that Zach was on Windows, but I would be surprised as I can't
>> get it to work with an installed Clang. It errors in the cmake step, unable
>> to find some cmake module.
>>
>> Is anyone genuinely trying to support this CMake configuration? It adds
>> quite a bit of complexity. If so, could they fix this error or suggest how
>> to fix it on the Clang side? (I help maintain the Clang cmake build, so I'm
>> happy to enact any reasonable changes needed...)
>>
>> This came up because I have a change to the LLDB CMake build but am
>> currently unable to test it in a fully standalone build (IE, w/o a source
>> tree).
>>
>> -Chandler
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