build automation tool

[Prakhar Agrawal]

Hello, I was going through the GitHub repo of flashrom, and I saw some
files outside the folders.

Do you think it will be a good idea to organise the files in the directory
and use a build automation tool like waf,cmake or maybe bazel to
auto-generate Makefiles.
It can also be used to create and link shared libraries easily.

Looking forward to your opinions.

Best Regards
Prakhar

[Thomas Heijligen]

Hi Prakhar,

historical flashrom lived mostly in the root directory. We have started
with moving stuff around. E.g the headers are now in a include
directory and some platform specific stuff has also found a new home.

The bigger problem with moving stuff around is, that flashrom is not
just a library and a cli build ontop of it. The cli, and an other
programm, ich_descriptors_tool, uses internal symbols of the library.
Also the "internal" programmer is mixed with some "core" functionality
which makes it currently difficult to move files around. We would be
happy to solve those issues to have a better structure in the
repository.

For the second part, we've almost finnished the migration from gnumake
to meson/ninja. Only cross-compiling for DOS and libpayload (coreboot
payload) and a better update of the documentation is not finished yet.
Plese feel free to test it of the most obscure platforms you've access
to.
With meson we already genreating a shared library.

-- Thomas

On Thu, 2023-02-23 at 09:49 +0530, Prakhar Agrawal wrote:
> Hello, I was going through the GitHub repo of flashrom, and I saw
> some files outside the folders.
>
> Do you think it will be a good idea to organise the files in the
> directory and use a build automation tool like waf,cmake or maybe
> bazel to auto-generate Makefiles.
> It can also be used to create and link shared libraries easily.
>
> Looking forward to your opinions.
>
> Best Regards
> Prakhar
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[Prakhar Agrawal]

I looked into meson. It's awesome!

It provides all the tools and is comparatively easy to write and understand.
> > Only cross-compiling for DOS and libpayload (coreboot payload)

Looking forward to the release, also if there are any open projects like
writing a cross-build definition file, I would be happy to look into them
and contribute.

-- Prakhar

[Edward O'Callaghan]

A good starter project in this area would be to perhaps start moving
drivers (apart from internal and a few exceptions) into drivers/{spi,
parallel, opaque}/.

Cheers,
Edward.

On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 06:45, Prakhar Agrawal 
wrote:
> I looked into meson. It's awesome!
>
> It provides all the tools and is comparatively easy to write and
> understand.
> > > Only cross-compiling for DOS and libpayload (coreboot payload)
>
> Looking forward to the release, also if there are any open projects like
> writing a cross-build definition file, I would be happy to look into them
> and contribute.
>
> -- Prakhar
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