Create cross wayland-scanner for toolchain or cross-development environment

[Andrew Kosteltsev]

Of course, not an old lib with a never scanner! only the same.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Quentin Glidic <
sardemff7+wayland at sardemff7.net> wrote:

> On 08/07/2016 10:46, Andrew Kosteltsev wrote:
>
>> Hi Quentin.
>>
>> I see. My suggestion related to simplify the build process on developer
>> machines which doesn't have pre-installed native Wayland package. And
>> also I think it would be good if wailand-scanner output will be
>> generated by scanner which has the same version as target machine scanner.
>>
> >
>
>> Currently developers must have installed wayland package and it is not
>> convenient if developer builds several targets for different CPU (and
>> may be different versions of some SW packages) at the same time using
>> cross environment.
>>
>> (for example, GNU file also requires native file utility on developer
>> machine, moreover it must have same version). I think not all needed
>> tools can be implemented into toolchain like cross-compiler. Some of
>> them can be built and added into DevEnv later on build time.
>>
>> Any way It is up to you. I just suggest.
>>
>
>
> I see your concern, and you should worry about only one thing: that your
> native libwayland package (so your wayland-scanner) is newer than the one
> you build.
> libwayland, and thus the scanner, will remain backward-compatible, so
> there is no harm in generating an old libwayland with a newer scanner.
> At least until wayland 2.0. :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
>
> Quentin “Sardem FF7” Glidic
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/attachments/20160708/6929e3c0/attachment-0001.html>