[haiku-development] Re: trying to get started

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:48:41 -0800

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tim Howe wrote:
>>
>> My main problem is building Haiku apps.  My test apps build fine using
>> Paladin, but I can't seem to find something to explain to me how I
>> would set up a Jamfile or a Makefile to build a GUI Haiku app.
>>
>>
>
> When developing a video driver, I use a makefile which uses the
> makefile-engine.  This is a fairly simple way of setting up a makefile since
> it requires only the entry of file names, folder paths, and a few pieces of
> other information.  I've attached the makefile that I have used for the
> ati.accelerant so that you can see the info that is entered in such a file.
>  Note that this makefile requires the makefile-engine to be installed, and
> its path is specified in the last line of the makefile.  The Haiku
> makefile-engine handles file dependencies and works fairly well;  however, I
> like the makefile-engine that came with Zeta 1.21 better because it displays
> the text output in a more readable and useful form.

The makefile engine was my first thought as well...

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- Urias

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