[haiku] Re: Open Source Games
- From: Roland Plüss <roland@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:55:03 +0200
Michael Weirauch wrote:
> 2009/9/18 Roland Plüss <roland@xxxxxxx>:
>
>> Michael Weirauch wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/9/18 Roland Plüss <roland@xxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I should have been most probably a bit more specific. It seems to be a
>>>> problem with SCons and it's header/library detection routine. I just
>>>> installed PNG from a precompiled binary and it fails to find it. Looks
>>>> like SCons needs a fix up but for this I need to know first what the
>>>> correct locations in Haiku are for the headers/libraries to look for. I
>>>> assume /boot/common/include and /boot/common/lib but maybe there are
>>>> more than those.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Roland,
>>> SCons is being initialized with a minimal set of "hints" in the
>>> platform initialization
>>> file as with every other platform init file. It's told in which paths
>>> to find binaries
>>> and the glue files for the linker.
>>>
>>> AFAIU, the rest is up to the developer setting up the SConscripts correctly.
>>>
>>> If, of course, other platforms toolchains have a wider set of default
>>> search and include paths,
>>> then one might reconsider providing some more hints to SCons on Haiku
>>> by default.
>>> But I think it is not necessary. Building blender with the SCons 1.0.1
>>> patch from haiku-ports
>>> shows no issues at all. (After setting up the blender-specific
>>> platform init file)
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Somehow I doubt this is correct because if I run a crossplatform
>> SConstruct file straight and it fails to find headers in the system
>> headers path then it's not my fault. Unless you expect a crossplatform
>> SConstruct to know the system path on all platforms it could be compiled
>> for. With Haiku this doesn't even work since os.name returns "posix" so
>> you have no way to tell if it's Haiku you compile on right now or Linux
>> or some other Unix derivate. So how should you know then if you have to
>> look in /boot/develop/headers instead of /usr/include this way?
>>
>
> I am sure you have far more experience with SCons than I do.
>
> os.name returning posix is the setting python provides. Determination of the
> specific platform is done via sys.platform.
> See
> http://scons.tigris.org/source/browse/scons/tags/1.0.1/src/engine/SCons/Platform/__init__.py?revision=3540&view=markup
>
> Regarding default includes, toolchain setup and so on...
> http://scons.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-e0ce82e9fe5e40156e31f494e732b8108762d689
>
> And that is why the platform initialization is what it is. Very basic.
> If you think that is utterly wrong
> you are welcome to file an improved patch at haiku-files.org's SCons
> portolog page.
>
> Nevertheless, I do still think that the FAQ entries say it all and
> that is why all platform init
> files you see in the 1.0.1 release don't set any system includes at
> all. For reference:
> http://scons.tigris.org/source/browse/scons/tags/1.0.1/src/engine/SCons/Platform/
>
> Please don't get me wrong, but for my understanding SCons tries to be
> as ignorant as possible
> by not knowing anything about a specific platform/operating system
> environment unless it is
> explicitely told about it. And that is exactly the path the Haiku init
> file follows.
>
> Michael
>
>
Tracked a bit deeper into this one. Looks like it is not actually the
include/lib path that is broken but the conf test in SCons itself. It
looks right now like an incorrect parameter is given to the g++ trying
to test-compile. Maybe this is because you use gcc2 instead of gcc4
since SCons is build for gcc3/gcc4 to begin with. Most probably a patch
to the test routine should fix this. Not to blame the haiku team or
anything like this since SCons is rather fickle about such things.
--
Yours sincerely
Plüss Roland
Leader and Head Programmer
- Game: Epsylon ( http://epsylon.rptd.ch/ ,
http://www.moddb.com/games/4057/epsylon )
- Game Engine: Drag(en)gine ( http://dragengine.rptd.ch ,
http://www.moddb.com/engines/9/dragengine )
- Normal Map Generator: DENormGen ( http://epsylon.rptd.ch/denormgen.php )
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