On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:44 AM David Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Le dim. 17 mai 2020 à 21:47, Nikolaus Waxweiler <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> First off: all of this sounds fantastic! I always love when stuff is deleted >> :) >> >> > In the end, and this is personal opinion, I find Meson cleaner than CMake, >> >> I'd vote for removing CMake support. Its inofficial status means that >> people shouldn't rely on it anyway, even if there inevitably are >> people that do. >> > > I think providing a CMakeLists.txt that can be used directly to compile > FreeType as a sub-project in a CMake-based project is still a very useful > thing. > As well as a FindFreeType.cmake or FreeTypeConfig.cmake module to be > installed to make the system library available. > > But that's just for the core library. I.e. the ability to build > documentation, install the library, or create distribution packages in CMake > are probably superfluous. > I hope to see something like the following for the future: > > - Meson as the primary build system for FreeType developers, which includes > the ability to run tests, sanitizers, coverage analysis, etc. > - Creating a distribution package should ensure the result supports > config/make and CMake out of the box to build a default configuration of the > library (with regards to features/modules, not external dependencies). The > meta-build script would be useful for this. > - The distribution package should probably only contain what's needed to > build the library, and not all the extra tests we may use during development > (maybe we can separate them with git submodules, I don't know yet). > - A developer that wants to use FreeType with a different module/feature > configuration would have to generate a new version of ftconfig.h/ftoption.h > and use that in his/her own build system. > > But as I said, baby steps, so let's not throw CMake support just yet. > > By the way, I've compared the size of the stripped libfreetype.so binaries > created by the 3 build systems: > > default: 712 KiB > CMake: 812 KiB > Meson: 896 KiB > > All generated on Linux from the same sources with the same ftconfig.h / > ftoption.h (in particular with all external dependencies enabled), and with > -fvisibility=hidden enabled for all of them. > I don't understand why there is such a large differenc yet.
have you passed --strip to meson call ? pass -v to ninja for verbose mode to see the differencies between make and ninja regards Vincent Torri
