Makina-Corpus.Org » FOSDEM http://www.makina-corpus.org La communauté des développeurs de Makina Corpus Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:02:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Waf build system http://copyleft.free.fr/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/17/waf-build-system/ http://copyleft.free.fr/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/17/waf-build-system/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:30:36 +0000 Stéphane http://copyleft.free.fr/wordpress/index.php/2008/03/17/waf-build-system/ I integrate the Waf build system to libmodbus. Waf is a really nice project I hope Thomas Nagy will have time to update his documentation. The code is small and really easy to browse but the most impressive difference is the execution time:

time (./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install)
=> 21.576s (with AM_DISABLE_STATIC)

time (./waf configure && ./waf build && sudo ./waf install)
=> 2.779s

The output is nice (compact and colorful), you can also use Waf in daemon mode (works with inotify) and each time a file of your project is modified, Waf build the new component. The size of the configure script is ~700Kb and if you choose to embed Waf it’s only 100Kb. Last but not least, your build system doesn’t check for Fortran anymore :).

Thanks to Ali Sabil for his demonstration of Waf at FOSDEM!

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