Building Portable C++ Packages: The Curse of Abundance
summary
Built a vinyl-to-digital app called Songcorder that must run on Linux, macOS and Windows; initial build chain stitches together Makefiles, Waf, CMake and ad-hoc shell scripts and fetches artifacts from flaky AWS S3 buckets, causing long CI builds and deleted binaries. Moved to Conan + CMake for dependency declarations, then produced per-platform binaries via Travis and hosted them on GitHub to cut rebuilds. Desktop packaging uses AppImage on Ubuntu 16 for Linux, DMG for macOS and NSIS for Windows; maintenance and modernizing CMake remain.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00VIRTUAL EVENT Building Portable C++ Packages: The Curse of Abundance
- 1:04How to build C++ code?
- 1:59What about cross-platform compatibility?
- 2:38Maybe some IDE support?
- 3:13Building an app with some Open Source dependencies
- 3:54Dependency management
- 5:07Choosing a build tool for an app
- 6:10How to handle the deps?
- 8:00What I didn't like
- 9:12Time to clean up!
- 10:44More cleaning up
- 13:28Linux packaging
- 13:54Applmage
- 16:51Questions?
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