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'''Mentor:''' Marcus Hanwell (marcus dot hanwell at kitware dot com). | '''Mentor:''' Marcus Hanwell (marcus dot hanwell at kitware dot com). | ||
=== Project: CMake ninja generator === | |||
''' | '''Brief explanation:''' CMake supports regular makefiles, and IDE's for all versions of Visual Studio, and Xcode. However, the new tool Ninja http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html has some properties that might allow faster builds over traditional makefiles. The idea of this project would be to create a new backend build tool format for CMake. | ||
''' | '''Expected results:''' A new option for any project using CMake to build with the Ninja tool. | ||
''' | '''Prerequisites:''' Experience with C++ programming, and a working knowledge of build tools like make. | ||
'''Mentor:''' Bill Hoffman. | |||
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Revision as of 22:31, 11 March 2011
Project ideas for the Google Summer of Code 2011
Guidelines
Students
These ideas were contributed by developers and users of CMake. If you wish to submit a proposal based on these ideas you may wish to contact the developers to find out more about the idea you are looking at, get to know the developers your proposal will be reviewed by and receive feedback on your ideas.
The Google Summer of Code program is competitive, and accepted students will usually have thoroughly researched the technologies of their proposed project, been in frequent contact with potential mentors and possibly have submitted a patch or two to fix bugs in the project they intend to work. Kitware makes extensive use of mailing lists, and this would be your best point of initial contact for any of the proposed projects you would like to apply for. The mailing lists can be found on the project pages linked to in the preceding paragraph. Please see GSoC proposal guidelines for further guidelines on writing your proposal.
Adding Ideas
When adding a new idea to this page, please try to include the following information:
- A brief explanation of the idea.
- Expected results/feature additions.
- Any prerequisites for working on the project.
- Links to any further information, discussions, bug reports etc.
- Any special mailing lists if not the standard mailing list for the CMake.
- Your name and email address for contact (if willing to mentor, or nominated mentor).
If you are not a developer for the project concerned, please contact a developer about the idea before adding it here.
Project Ideas
Project page, mailing lists, dashboard.
Project: CMake Autoconf Compatibility
Brief explanation: One of the things that prevents some projects from migrating to CMake is their current investment and shared knowledge of the auto* family of tools. Creating improved compatibility functions matching the familiar auto* syntax for things like header checks, command line switches to cmake etc would improve this situation significantly. The student would need to assess syntax that should be replicated in both the CMake language, and common command line switches such as --prefix=... Some modules already exist that implement some of this functionality, and these could be used as a starting point.
Expected results: Improved implementation of auto* like syntax to aid projects when migrating their build systems over to CMake. Additional documentation on the migration process, and working with existing communities that have needs in this area.
Mentor: Bill Hoffman (bill dot hoffman at kitware dot com).
Project: CMake Project Generator
Brief explanation: The addition of a facility in CMake to automatically generate CMakeLists files based upon the source files present in a directory. So a developer can point CMake at a directory full of source files with a '--generate-project' argument for example, and automatically generate a project. This should detect if source files contain the QOBJECT macro, and need Qt's moc running on them, adding them to the appropriate CMake variable. This would be limited in scope to relatively simple projects wanting a single executable to be built from the source files, with some heuristics or switches to determine what toolkit etc it being used.
Expected results: A new facility added to the CMake suite of tools to generate simple CMakeLists files when supplied the path to a source directory. The user should reasonably expect to be able to run generate CMakeLists files, run CMake on these files and type make to build their project. Similar in functionality to the feature provided by qmake.
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with CMake, C++ and Qt.
Mentor: Marcus Hanwell (marcus dot hanwell at kitware dot com).
Project: CMake ninja generator
Brief explanation: CMake supports regular makefiles, and IDE's for all versions of Visual Studio, and Xcode. However, the new tool Ninja http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html has some properties that might allow faster builds over traditional makefiles. The idea of this project would be to create a new backend build tool format for CMake.
Expected results: A new option for any project using CMake to build with the Ninja tool.
Prerequisites: Experience with C++ programming, and a working knowledge of build tools like make.
Mentor: Bill Hoffman.
