[sword-devel] Bindings cleanups and others

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Greg,

Can you update the README in the pertinent bindings/ folders to explain 
how to compile the bindings.  All the README files seem to be wrong.  I 
know you didn't write them, but you've been the most visibly proactive 
on the make system and the bindings lately. :)

Thanks for any help,

Troy




On 08/29/2012 03:41 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
> I have further cleaned up the building of the Bindings. They are now
> built and installed along with a single command with everything else.
> You still specify -DSWORD_BINDINGS="Perl Python" if you want to e.g.
> build both language bindings at once. Then just a standard make/make
> install at the library level will also compile and install the
> bindings.
>
> Other improvements:
> - Previously the bindings would be recompiled every single time you
> issued a 'make' or 'make install' command. This is no longer the case.
> It should be a much nicer experience for people who are hacking on the
> rest of the engine who don't want to fiddle with recompiling the
> bindings every small change of utility file or the like.
> - Successfully builds against static libraries. Previously the whole
> process would just explode if you tried to build using only a static
> library build. Now the bindings can be built against either static or
> shared libraries. If you build both libraries with the same command
> then the bindings will be built against the shared.
> - Significant cleanup of the CMake rules surrounding the library
> building. They are now proper subdirectories of the main project
> instead of some crazy tacked-on addition. This should make it much
> clearer what is going on in the CMake system.
>
> All these improvements apply only to the CMake build process and not
> to the autotools, although some of the warnings cleanup were changes
> in the SWIG code itself and will be reflected if you use autotools to
> build.
>
> --Greg
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you're building with CMake you add the flag -DSWORD_BINDINGS="Perl"
>> to build the Perl bindings. Then after issuing your standard make
>> command you'll be prompted somewhere in the output with the next step.
>> After installing SWORD with a sudo make install you need to cd into
>> bindings/swig/perl and do a 'sudo make install' from there as well.
>>
>> It's not quite as clean as it should be, but it works at present.
>> Report any problems you have with it.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Thule <thulester at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Speaking of which, are the Perl bindings automatically generated with makes
>>> or are there additional steps required?  I've had no success either finding
>>> documentation on generating the Perl bindings or in using them
>>> ~A
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, August 28, 2012, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>>> For those of you who don't follow the SVN commit logs I have just
>>>> cleaned up a couple of compile warnings that the Python and Perl SWIG
>>>> bindings would throw during the install stage. Most notable changes
>>>> are removal of the Traversable() and Index() methods on the
>>>> sword::SWKey class. If you have code that uses those, you should
>>>> update it to use getTraversable/setTravsable and getIndex/setIndex.
>>>> These methods have been deprecated in the C++ library for a little
>>>> while now and were causing the bindings to give deprecation warnings
>>>> during compile.
>>>>
>>>> There were also a few little cleanups of some code internal to the
>>>> bindings that were producing warnings. The Python bindings are now
>>>> clean, but the Perl bindings are still producing one or two warnings
>>>> (better than the 7 or so before!).
>>>>
>>>> There are still lots of SWIG compiler warnings that I'd like to track
>>>> down, but the C warnings are now almost gone.
>>>>
>>>> I have also updated CMake to install the Rahlfs's canon header file.
>>>>
>>>> --Greg
>>>>
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