{"id":2416,"date":"2011-11-21T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2011-11-21T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:04:48","slug":"pandora-build-autotools-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/21\/pandora-build-autotools-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"pandora-build: autotools made easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in 2009, Monty Taylor got fed up with maintaining a set of common autotools foo across several projects (one of which was Drizzle<\/a>) and started the pandora-build<\/a> project. \u00c2\u00a0Basically, it’s a collection of the foo you need for autotools to do things like: use it properly, detect a bunch of common libraries, enable crap-tons of compiler warnings (and -Werror) and write an application\/library with plugins (that are auto-discovered and built).<\/p>\n

(and don’t worry, there’s also modes to disable -Werror and different compiler warnings if you’re working on an old code base that really doesn’t build cleanly)<\/p>\n

There’s also templates for Quickly<\/a> to get you up and started really quickly.<\/p>\n

Basically, for the past 3 years, whenever I’ve gone to write some small project (or got sufficiently annoyed with the broken build system on an old one), I’ve turned to pandora-build to solve my problems.<\/p>\n

Recently, I’ve had the need to use the plugin infrastructure of pandora-build in a new project (I’ve used it extensively in Drizzle<\/a> of course). The one bit that pandora does not take care of for you is the dlopen() code to load plugins at run time… although I do wonder about turning some of that code into a bit of a library just because a bunch of it is pretty common….<\/p>\n

Of course, a task for me is to write up a blog post on how I did it all, but for the moment I thought I’d just share :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in 2009, Monty Taylor got fed up with maintaining a set of common autotools foo across several projects (one of which was Drizzle) and started the pandora-build project. \u00c2\u00a0Basically, it’s a collection of the foo you need for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-CY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3083,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/new-libeatmydata-release\/","url_meta":{"origin":2416,"position":0},"title":"New libeatmydata release!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-07-03","format":false,"excerpt":"I updated the web site for libeatmydata (woah!):\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/flamingspork.com\/projects\/libeatmydata\/\u00c2\u00a0and the launchpad page: https:\/\/launchpad.net\/libeatmydata\u00c2\u00a0to reflect this too. 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