Contribution Guide for Mogan Editor
Developing guide for xmake on GNU/Linux and macOS is available above.
For Windows, we haven’t provided detailed guide yet. But you can learn how to develop on Windows via our CI: https://gitee.com/XmacsLabs/mogan/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci-xmake.yaml
@mgubi I suggest that you should try it. I think we should finally switched from autotools to xmake for GNU TeXmacs.
Thanks! As I understand GNU projects are required to use auto tools. But we can also provide xmake projects of course! I do not care much about cmake, if you think that xmake is better and that we can import the workflows from Mogan to TeXmacs that would be great. We need a reliable way to build and test our sources automatically. It seems you have done a great job for Mogan in this respect.
In one word, xmake with xrepo is a better solution of cmake with MXE.
xmake will automatically fetch the C++ dependencies and compile it.
Why we still need to install Qt manually?
Because compiling Qt from scratch takes too long!
Great work, it seems to work well!
For fellow Fedora users: I had to do xmake f --qt=/usr/lib64/qt5/ for it to find Qt.
It seems you have done a great job for Mogan in this respect.
@jingkaimori has done a great job for Mogan on xmake support, especially on Windows.
As I understand GNU projects are required to use auto tools.
Autotools is too hard to use. The GNU guys should design a better build tool.
But we can also provide xmake projects of course! I do not care much about cmake, if you think that xmake is better and that we can import the workflows from Mogan to TeXmacs that would be great. We need a reliable way to build and test our sources automatically.
Create pull requests to https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-repo/tree/master/packages to support GNU Guile 1.8 would be the first step. xrepo provide a nice way to customize the personal repo. We do not need to wait the pull requests to be merged.
As I understand GNU projects are required to use auto tools.
And the author of xmake created xmake.sh.
It might be a good alternative of autotools: https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake.sh
The workflow is the same as autotools. The build syntax is similar to lua-powered build definition in xmake but maintained in shell scripting. It seems it is generating Makefiles.
These two pull requests show the power of xmake:
Using xmake, it is very easy for us to depend on the nowide library rather than include the source code for nowide. cc @pjoyez