Re: Lode and Chocolate.

> On 12 Mar 2016, at 12:25, David Ostrovsky <d.ostrovsky@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat Mar 12 09:06:40 UTC 2016, jan iversen wrote:
>
> > > On 12 Mar 2016, at 09:52, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:10 AM, jan iversen
> > > <jani at documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > Just tried the new chocolate setup with lode, works very nicely.
> GOOD WORK.
> > > > It would be even nice if we got it integrated into the first lode
> install script, or at least the script check for the prerequsites.
> > > lode is meant to be run as a non-admin, on purpose so that the
> cygwin
> > > installed is owned by the normal user.. which save the back and
> forth
> > > to install new packages or edit /etc or usr/
> > > and in general it is a good thing to build with a regular user (just
> > > like on linux you should not build as root)
> > >
> > > chocolate, and the stuff it install need to be as 'admin'
> > > so that still would require two step...
> > > Still that can make things much nicer.. since lode could provide a
> > > chocolate wrapper that the user be instructed to run as admin....
> > Interesting, when I read the instructions, I read that
> > install_cygwin.ps1 is run as admin, and ./setup as a normal user (due
> > to the fat warning before running ./setup).
> >
> > My thinking was to have the chocolate steps in install_cygwin.ps1 with
> > our "defaults" and command line options to overwrite them.
>
> This is a valid point. How about provide a new script, say lode_boot
> (or some such), that would install all prerequisites (using chocolate +
> current install_cygwin.ps1):
>
> * SDK10,
> * MSVC 14.0
> * JDK8
> * Emacs
> * Cygwin + all usual suspects: ant, junit, make, nasm, ...
>
> The workflow for a contributor and/or Jenkins/TB administrator would be
> (square brackets steps are optional):
>
> 0. set up Windows VM
> 1. relax Powershell script execution restriction
> 2. install Chocolate
> 3. clone lode project
> 4. cd lode
> 5. ./lode_boot # as admin, with some option, like msvc-proffesional, ..
> 6. ./setup # as normal user
> 7. cd dev/core
> [8]. add more autogen.input options
> 9. ./autogen.sh
> 10. make
> [11]. start Emacs, hack, or
> [12]. make vs2015-ide-integration
> [13]. start MSVC 14.0, hack
>
> PS. Oh, just saw, that vs2015-ide-integration target wasn't implemented
> yet ;-( Would be nice if we would have an easy hack for that.

Even better we have a GSoC project for that, because the current integration only covers about 1/3 
of the executables/libraries.

rgds
jan i.

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