Understanding the build process of project

[Mike Lee]

Hello,

I am trying to fiddle with this project so I can learn C better with a real project however I am extremely confused with the build process of this project. This whole mako thing makes absolutely no sense to me and the docs are rubbish.

For example, in

.../master/templates/gRPC-Core.podspec.template

the following notice is present: 

# This file has been automatically generated from a template file.
# Please make modifications to `templates/gRPC-Core.podspec.template`
# instead. This file can be regenerated from the template by running # `tools/buildgen/generate_projects.sh`.

So I have to edit the same template file that generates the template file? Am I missing something? Where can I find more information on how this project gets build exactly? thanks in advance

[Nicolas Noble]

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/INSTALL.md

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[Mike Lee]

Hi

I wasn't really asking how to build the project using the preconfigured command (i.e make install), but what actually happens when you run the command.....

[Mike Lee]

There seems to be  a lot of crazy stuff with mako, yaml, bazel, Cmake....jesus christ what the hell is going on??

maybe i should just try redis.....but this looks more interesting. 

any help on how all these fit together would be appreciated. the docs seem outdated and a lot of the links are broken.

thanks

On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 3:56:13 PM UTC+10, Nicolas Noble wrote:

[Craig Tiller]

We end up needing to support a bunch of build systems, but the maintenance cost of having every developer update all of them would be excessive. So we've got a bunch of relatively ad-hoc scripts that read build.yaml, process it a little, and feed it into the mako-templates-embedded-in-yaml that you've found.

Most of the support-a-new-build-system work comes down to writing a template to extract the bits you need (copy-paste from existing examples works marvelously).

We don't have a way to code generate the codegen warning comment, so it gets typed into the templates, which is really confusing I agree, but O(nobody) looks there and there have been bigger fish to fry... We'd much rather spend time building RPC systems.

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[Mike Lee]

 thanks for that chris.

It's a shame really, unfortunately I'm just unable to contribute/participate in a project whose build system is akin to voodo....what's the point??

I hope a much more sane/detailed documentation on how exactly this build system comes together is in the pipeline some time down the line. I can only imagine the amount of would-be contributors to this project who had puked once opening this repository. 

[Craig Tiller]

Thanks for the feedback. I wish you all the best in finding another project to contribute to.

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[Mike Lee]

One more question Chris, what or OS do you use when developing this project??

Seems like Windows with VS is preferred?

[Craig Tiller]

I do all my work on either Linux or Mac.

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