Compared to Corrade, the improvement in compile time is about a minute
cumulative across all cores, or about 8 seconds on an 8-core system (~2
minutes before, ~1:52 after). Not bad at all. And this is with a
deprecated build, the non-deprecated build is 1:48 -> 1:41.
Partially needed to avoid build breakages because Corrade itself
switched as well, partially because a cleanup is always good. Done
except for (STL-heavy) code that's deprecated or SceneGraph-related APIs
that are still quite full of STL as well.
So people new to the plugin stuff can quickly get to usage introduction
and code snippets. The plugins alone don't list anything like that and
it may be *very* confusing otherwise.
When for example only CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY is set, but not the
others, the original code skipped overriding the locations altogether.
This is a valid use case, as e.g. ARCHIVE and LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
tend to mess with the way Visual Studio produces and consumes *.lib
files.
Furthermore, this now also handles CMAKE_*_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_<CONFIG> in
a similar way, which is what Conan uses for example.
Similar to the change done in Corrade, see the commit for details:
878624ac36
Wow, this is probably the most backwards-compatibility code I've ever
written. Can't wait until I can drop all that.
It limits the support for CMake 3.12+, but it's much less verbose and I
don't expect people to use ancient CMake versions with IDEs like Xcode
or VS anyway, so this should be fine.
Minor but very important convenience feature, especially useful when
dealing with command-line apps. This now works:
magnum-imageconverter a.png a.jpg -c jpegQuality=0.75
The AnyImageConverter gets the jpegQuality option and then
automatically propagates it to the concrete plugin (which is either
JpegImageConverter or StbImageConverter), possibly warning in case the
target plugin doesn't recognize given option (i.e., doesn't list it in
its default configuration). Previously the user had to always specify a
concrete converter implementation using -C, which was rather annoying
and nonintuitive.
It doesn't really work for tests that depend on more than one plugin
(because there i would need to handle all combinations, somehow), but it
does the job when the end user has such use case.
This makes it possible to:
- finally use Magnum as a CMake subproject on Windows and have your
executables not fail to run with a "DLL missing" error (and the
setting is put to cache so superprojects just implicitly make use of
that)
- run tests on Windows without having to install first
- use dynamic plugins from a CMake subproject on any platform without
having to install first or load them by filename --- and the plugin
directory is now easily discovered as relative to
libraryLocation() of the library implementing given plugin interface
No matter how broken iOS is in CMake 3.6, $<CONFIG> seems to work there,
so reducing the amount of code and putting the configure into a single
place independently of what generator or what system/build is used.
Compared to current state it always adds Debug/configure.h instead of
putting it directly to the ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}, but the
alternative would be some CMake branching again and I just removed that,
so no.
This also prepares everything for plugin libraries being put into a
central place -- the config files don't depend on their location
anymore.
More consistent with what's done elsewhere, reduces header dependencies,
allows me to (later) make this independent on the AL library and also
works around a Doxygen bug. Win win!