autotools based alternate build system about yajl

[avuton]

Seriously, please pull this in. Otherwise cross compiling with mingw fails to build.

[jbergstroem]

I'm intrigued. What platforms more specifically are you having issues with? I've always found cmake to "Just Work" on most platforms I've worked on. If this is gentoo-related, I'd be even more interested since I'm a pretty devoted user as well. Thanks!

[lu-zero]

On 8/15/11 8:45 PM, jbergstroem wrote:

I'm intrigued. What platforms more specifically are you having issues with?
I've always found cmake to "Just Work" on most platforms I've worked on.
If this is gentoo-related, I'd be even more interested since I'm a pretty
devoted user as well. Thanks!

One is gentoo prefix gcc-4.5 on macosx since

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CFBundle.h

seems to be incompatible with current C++ (char* to string implicit cast
got removed).

Some are C-only systems so you don't have much to do (cmake is a bit big
to be rewritten to fit that constraint I guess ^^;), the rest cross
compiling.

The thing that might be easy to fix in gentoo is the cross compiling
support since nowadays cmake should have something but so far I failed
to use it =| (the quickest way to try it is to setup a crossdev and then
trying to emerge poppler)

Thank you for the support =)

[artob]

Luca's fork builds and installs without incident on Windows XP with MinGW, unlike the canonical CMake-based fork.

However, there's an unfortunate typo in Makefile.am that results in libyail being built instead of libyajl as expected.

Note also the duplicated effort in #89. It would be good to get Autotools support in, one way or another, so that binaries requiring YAJL can be built on Windows with MinGW or Cygwin.

[ice799]

yo can you merge this?

literally just find and replace "libyail" to "libyajl" if that is what is preventing this from going in.

(please also add an autogen.sh: https://github.com/ice799/yajl/blob/autolol/autogen.sh)

let me know if i can help in any way with this

[lucky]

seriously, why has this been hanging out so long?

[lloyd]

ok! I'm sorry! by end of day. /me hangs head in shame

[ice799]

thanks let me know if i can help i will literally do anything to help this get merged

[zenspider]

@ice799 literally?

[lloyd]

heh.

[lloyd]

had a look at luca's fork and it's a bit rough:

1. having version stated in two places sucks.
2. BUILDING should be updated
3. build is not working via autotools on my linux machine.

check autotools branch for the merge/update I tried. Now. I'll have a look at @ice799's fork...

[bradennapier]

yawns

[robohack]

FYI, my fork is not autotools -- it's even simpler, and in fact it's all that could ever be needed for such basic standard C.

https://github.com/robohack/yajl