[jira] Commented: (AVRO-700) Change C++ build system to C++

["Scott Banachowski (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Scott Banachowski commented on AVRO-700:
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Regarding the use of flex and bison, since these generate C files, we could probably just check in the generated files... then on platforms without flex/bison, they can build without needing to regenerate them.  Only people who need to modify the lexer code need to run flex/bison.

The python script is a code generator to build the serialization code from a schema, and it's not strictly needed to build the library.  It's used in unit tests since the output code exercises a lot of the functionality.








> Change C++ build system to C++
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-700
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-700
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: c++
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.0
>            Reporter: Thiruvalluvan M. G.
>            Assignee: Thiruvalluvan M. G.
>             Fix For: 1.5.0
>
>         Attachments: apply-patch.sh, AVRO-700.patch
>
>
> If we move from the current automake to CMake, build becomes portable across multiple platforms. Prior to this patch, Avro C++ was building on Cygwin but was crashing. I've tested this on Ubuntu 10.04 and Cygwin.
> There are problems making it work with Visual Studio 2008 Express, not because of CMake, but because the current build procedure needs Flex, Bison and python. Visual Studio seems to have trouble with these three.

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