[CastXML] Building CastXML from Source

[Matt McCormick]

Lewis,

Here is a project that will build CastXML and its dependencies from
source.  It is based off the ITK configuration.

  https://github.com/thewtex/CastXMLSuperbuild

Hope this helps,
Matt

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M)
<Lewis.J.Mcgibbney at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Matt,
> Thank you for your update.
> I've got a local patch fr the README and we'll send ASAP.
> Thanks
> Lewis
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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