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* Migrate to a CMake-based build system.Simon Tatham2021-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This completely removes the old system of mkfiles.pl + Recipe + .R files that I used to manage the various per-platform makefiles and other build scripts in this code base. In its place is a CMakeLists.txt setup, which is still able to compile for Linux, Windows, MacOS, NestedVM and Emscripten. The main reason for doing this is because mkfiles.pl was a horrible pile of unmaintainable cruft. It was hard to keep up to date (e.g. didn't reliably support the latest Visual Studio project files); it was so specific to me that nobody else could maintain it (or was even interested in trying, and who can blame them?), and it wasn't even easy to _use_ if you weren't me. And it didn't even produce very good makefiles. In fact I've been wanting to hurl mkfiles.pl in the bin for years, but was blocked by CMake not quite being able to support my clang-cl based system for cross-compiling for Windows on Linux. But CMake 3.20 was released this month and fixes the last bug in that area (it had to do with preprocessing of .rc files), so now I'm unblocked! CMake is not perfect, but it's better at mkfiles.pl's job than mkfiles.pl was, and it has the great advantage that lots of other people already know about it. Other advantages of the CMake system: - Easier to build with. At least for the big three platforms, it's possible to write down a list of build commands that's actually the same everywhere ("cmake ." followed by "cmake --build ."). There's endless scope for making your end-user cmake commands more fancy than that, for various advantages, but very few people _have_ to. - Less effort required to add a new puzzle. You just add a puzzle() statement to the top-level CMakeLists.txt, instead of needing to remember eight separate fiddly things to put in the .R file. (Look at the reduction in CHECKLST.txt!) - The 'unfinished' subdirectory is now _built_ unconditionally, even if the things in it don't go into the 'make install' target. So they won't bit-rot in future. - Unix build: unified the old icons makefile with the main build, so that each puzzle builds without an icon, runs to build its icon, then relinks with it. - Windows build: far easier to switch back and forth between debug and release than with the old makefiles. - MacOS build: CMake has its own .dmg generator, which is surely better thought out than my ten-line bodge. - net reduction in the number of lines of code in the code base. In fact, that's still true _even_ if you don't count the deletion of mkfiles.pl itself - that script didn't even have the virtue of allowing everything else to be done exceptionally concisely.
* Put the game summaries from the website into gamedesc.txt.Simon Tatham2015-01-13
| | | | | | More sensible to bring all the pieces of per-puzzle descriptive text together into one place, so they can be easily reused everywhere they're needed.
* Add a mechanism to the automake system to allow 'make install' to onlySimon Tatham2013-06-30
| | | | | | install the actual games, not the auxiliary binaries or nullgame. [originally from svn r9887]
* Rename wingames.lst to gamedesc.txt, and add a couple of extra fieldsSimon Tatham2013-06-08
| | | | | | | | | to it giving each game's "internal" name (as seen in the source file, .R etc) and also a brief description of the game. The idea of the latter is that it should be usable as a comment field in .desktop files and similar. [originally from svn r9858]
* Change to the handling of -DCOMBINED in the makefiles. Instead ofSimon Tatham2008-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | defining it centrally per port, I think it's neater to define it for each puzzle when adding that puzzle to the ALL list - because those front ends which take -DCOMBINED are precisely those which use ALL. In particular, this change opens up the possibility of compiling both individual puzzles _and_ a combined monolith within the same makefile. [originally from svn r8178]
* Create a blank .rc file to be used in the absence of icons/foo.rc.Simon Tatham2007-02-27
| | | | | | | | | This means that puzzles.rc2 is always included in all Windows and PocketPC builds, which in turn means that I should be able to start filling it full of VERSIONINFO and have that reliably included as well. [originally from svn r7339]
* Build an installer for Puzzles.Simon Tatham2007-02-24
| | | | [originally from svn r7319]
* Build script for Puzzles using bob. I've also added a piece of extraSimon Tatham2007-02-04
| | | | | | | | | infrastructure to the mkfiles.pl framework for the convenience of the build script: it generates `wingames.lst', a list of the Windows binaries which are ship-worthy games as opposed to nullgame or command-line auxiliary programs. [originally from svn r7206]
* Support for run-time icons in the GTK puzzles. This involved anotherSimon Tatham2006-12-27
| | | | | | | | | | mkfiles.pl change (I don't seem to be planning ahead very well this week), this time to provide a list of fallback options for an object file. That way, I have a no-icon.c which quietly replaces icons/foo-icon.c if the latter doesn't exist, and so again people checking straight out from Subversion shouldn't have trouble. [originally from svn r7021]
* Actually introduce the ability to build the Windows icons into theSimon Tatham2006-12-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows puzzle binaries. This checkin involves several distinct changes: - mkfiles.pl now has an extra feature: if an object file is listed in Recipe with a trailing question mark, it will be considered optional, and silently dropped from the makefile if its primary source file isn't present at the time mkfiles.pl runs. This means people who check out the puzzles from Subversion and just run mkfiles.pl shouldn't get build failures; they just won't get the icons. - all the .R files now use this feature to include an optional Windows resource file. - the .rc resource source files are built by icons/Makefile. - windows.c finds the icon if present and uses it in place of the standard Windows application icon. [originally from svn r7020]
* I'm sick of repeatedly adding and removing local changes to RecipeSimon Tatham2006-08-05
when testing a new game, so here's a new architecture for the Recipe file. mkfiles.pl now supports several new features: - an `!include' directive, which accepts wildcards - += to append to an existing object group definition - the ability to divert output to an arbitrary file. So now each puzzle has a `.R' file containing a fragment of Recipe code describing that puzzle, and the central Recipe does `!include *.R' to construct the Makefiles. That way, I can keep as many experimental half-finished puzzles lying around my working directory as I like, and I won't have to keep reverting Recipe when I check in any other changes. As part of this change, list.c is no longer a version-controlled file; it's now constructed by mkfiles.pl, so that it too can take advantage of this mechanism. [originally from svn r6781]