[CastXML] Building CastXML from Source

[Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M)]

Matt,
Thank you for your update.
I've got a local patch fr the README and we'll send ASAP.
Thanks
Lewis 

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> On May 21, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lewis,
> 
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M)
> <Lewis.J.Mcgibbney at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Folks,
>> Just to follow up on this.
>> I discovered a number of major bugs which crashed the compiler for clang 3.6.0 on Macosx 10.9.5.
>> I’ll update this thread once I find if the bugs have been sorted out. I’ll also submit a patch if required.
> 
> 
> Any feedback and upstream patches are appreciated!
> 
> 
> 
>> A C++ compiler supporting the c++11 standard language level.
>> 
>> Any one in particular? Any suggestions? I’ve been messing around with my environment recently and guidance on this would be very much appreciated rather than me going on a wild goose chase to find something which I later find out to be the incorrect choice.
> 
> We test with recent GCC, Clang, and Visual Studio on the ITK
> dashboard.  See here:
> 
>  https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=Insight&filtercount=1&showfilters=1&field1=groupname/string&compare1=63&value1=wrap
> 
> Click on the "Configure" column entries to see what compiler and its
> version is used.
> 
> 
>> CMake cross-platform build system generator.
> 
>> I’ve got this installed. Will this work?
>> lcgibbn at LMC-032857 /usr/local/jpl/snow/trunk/tmscag/trunk(master) $ cmake --version
>> cmake version 3.2.2
>> CMake suite maintained and supported by Kitware (kitware.com/cmake).
> 
> Yes, that should work.
> 
> 
> 
>> I’m nearly reaching my limit navigating the llvm/clang documentation and failing to complete the task at hand without any issues.
>> Can you point me to a trusted llvm/clang installation which will address the above?
>> I have the following clang setups locally
>> 
>> Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
>> Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
>> Thread model: posix
>> 
>> clang+llvm-3.0-x86_64-apple-darwin11/
>> clang+llvm-3.2-x86_64-apple-darwin11/
>> clang+llvm-3.4-x86_64-apple-darwin10.9/
>> clang+llvm-3.4.2-x86_64-apple-darwin10.9/
>> clang+llvm-3.1-x86_64-apple-darwin11/
>> clang+llvm-3.3-x86_64-apple-darwin12/
>> clang+llvm-3.4.1-x86_64-apple-darwin10.9/
>> clang+llvm-3.5.0-macosx-apple-darwin/
> 
>> I tried all of the above with xdress and got pretty much nowhere. This is why if you have a trusted installation from source guide for llvm/clang.
> 
> For the CastXML, the appropriate CMake LLVM/Clang configuration bits
> must be available, and the binaries available from clang.org sadly do
> not not ship with them.  I will create a simple CMake script that can
> drive a build.
> 
> 
> 
>> Optionally, the Sphinx documentation generator to build documentation.
>> 
>> Which version? Any add ons? Any other tricks we need to know about?
> 
> There are no know limitations that I am aware of.  If you find some,
> please help improve the documentation.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt