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[dimitre]

Hello, first of all congrats about the project, I've been testing today and it seems incredible.

I would love to know how can I pass -frtti parameter to the compiler.
here is my experimental chalet.json now:

{
	"name": "OF",
	"version": "0.11.3",
	"externalDependencies": {
		"glm" : {
			"repository" : "https://github.com/g-truc/glm"
		},
		"glfw": {
		   "repository": "https://github.com/glfw/glfw"
		   
		}

	 },	

	 "abstracts:*": {
		"language": "C++",
		"settings:Cxx": {
			"cppStandard": "c++17",
			"runtimeTypeInformation": false,
			"defines": [
				" -frtti"
			],
			"includeDirs": [
				"${external:glm}",
				"${external:glfw}",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/glew/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/tess2/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/utf8/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/Freeimage/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/cairo/include/cairo",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/curl/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/fmod/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/freetype/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/json/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/pugixml/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/rtAudio/include",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/uriparser/include"
			],

			"libDirs": [
				"${external:glm}",
				"${external:glfw}",
				"/Volumes/tool/ofw/libs/glew/include"
			],
			"macosFrameworks": [
				"CoreFoundation",
				"CoreAudio",
				"CoreVideo",
				"AppKit",
				"IOKit",
				"Carbon",
				"Metal",
				"AudioToolbox"
			]
		}
	},	 
	"targets": {

		
		"core": {
			"kind": "executable",
			"language": "C++",
			"settings:Cxx": {
				"cppStandard": "c++17",
				"defines": [
					" -frtti"
				],


				"includeDirs": [
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/3d",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/app",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/communication",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/events",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/gl",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/graphics",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/math",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/sound",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/types",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/utils",
					"src/of/libs/openFrameworks/video"
				]
			},
			"files": "src/of/examples/3d/3DPrimitivesExample/src/**"
		}
	},
	"distribution": {
		"all": {
			"kind": "bundle",
			"buildTargets": "*"
		}
	}
}

[rewrking]

Thanks for trying it out! It means a lot. There's still lots to iron out, but it's getting there.

To answer your question: set "runtimeTypeInformation": true inside settings:Cxx, but that just uses rtti implicitly right now -- it's enabled by default in gcc. If you want to explicitly set -frtti, use "compileOptions[toolchain:(name)]": [ "-frtti" ] where (name) can be anything matching your toolchain. Details on that here.

defines in this case just refers to CLI macro definitions (DEBUG, UNICODE or something). They could certainly be validated better.

I may just make "runtimeTypeInformation": true explicitly set the flag in the future though...

[dimitre]

Outstanding. in fact I am quite happy with Chalet, and I'm trying to build openFrameworks project with it in macOs
https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks
it is a quite complex project (lots of plataforms and variations) but I think your tool is great.

Not sure if it is the best channel but here some initial doubts:
how can I mix c++ and objective-c++ ? or how can I add some compiler parameters like:

-DNDEBUG
-fexceptions
-fpascal-strings
-mmacosx-version-min=10.15
-fobjc-arc
-D__MACOSX_CORE__

[rewrking]

For all the objective-C++ stuff, try to put them into their own staticLibrary target and set the language to Objective-C (.m files) or Objective-C++ (.mm files), then link that static library in a C++ executable target. Objective-C isn't really cross-platform, so there's no abstraction properties like with rtti, so you would just add the flags you want to compilerOptions:

{
  "abstracts:*": {
    "settings:Cxx": {
      "defines[:macos]": [
        "__MACOSX_CORE"
      ],
      "defines[:!debug]": [ 
        "NDEBUG"
      ],
      "compilerOptions[:macos]": [
        "-mmacos-version-min=10.15"
      ]
    }
  },
  "targets": {
    "my-static-lib": {
      "language": "Objective-C++",
      "kind": "staticLibrary",
      "files": "src/**.mm",
      "settings:Cxx": {
        "condition": "[:macos]",
        "exceptions": true,
        "compilerOptions": [
          "-fpascal-strings",
          "-fobjc-arc"
        ]

      }
    },
    "my-executable": {
      "language": "C++",
      "kind": "executable",
      "files": "src/**.cpp",
      "links[:macos]": [
        "my-static-lib"
      ]
    }
  }
}

-D options just get translated to defines, where you'll want to keep build configurations in mind.

[dimitre]

Thank you! here are my results using 0.5.4

ERROR: Failed to validate the json file: chalet.json
ERROR: The 'settings:Cxx' object contains an unknown property 'condition': Not allowed.
ERROR: The 'settings:Cxx' object contains an unknown property 'compilerOptions': Not allowed.
ERROR: Instance is too short as per minLength:1
ERROR: The 'app' object contains an unknown property 'links[:macos]': Not allowed.

[rewrking]

Ah that was my bad. Put condition outside of settings.

[dimitre]

One suggestion on the Chalet site : the search results doesn't point to documentation, nothing happens when I click on them.
it would be great to have the entire reference in a PDF file.

now I'm trying to research "macosFrameworks" list. it seems frameworks are not being passed to CXX parameters, but it can be something missing here on my side.

[rewrking]

Re: PDF - probably not any time soon, although I'll check out if something is up with the search. It's kind of funky in Safari, but should work fine in chrome/firefox.

For frameworks, this sort of thing should be enough:

"macosFrameworkPaths": [
  "path/to/some/frameworks"
],
"macosFrameworks": [
  "CoreFoundation",
  "CoreAudio",
  "CoreVideo",
  "CoreHaptics",
  "MyFramework"
]

Note: /System/Library/Frameworks and /Library/Frameworks are implicitly added.

[dimitre]

I've built this get-chalet github actions, so hopefully I can use to build libraries and pack them in a zip file, multiplatform
https://github.com/dimitre/get-chalet/
it seems to have complete building on macos, some issues on Ubuntu

/home/runner/work/get-chalet/get-chalet/chalet/src/Utility/Version.cpp:29:19: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char> >::size_type’ {aka ‘long unsigned int’} and ‘int’ [-Werror=sign-compare]
[232](https://github.com/dimitre/get-chalet/actions/runs/3222691601/jobs/5272024057#step:2:236)
   29 |  if (split.size() > std::numeric_limits<int>::max())

[rewrking]

Nice! I'll check this out. Feel free to start a new discussion thread for something like this too. The compiler error you mentioned has been fixed - I'll have a new patch version out shortly (v0.5.6).

[dimitre]

Great! I'll be testing right now as I'm cloning directly from git. Yes I'm still unsure about where to write here, discussions vs issues :)

[rewrking]

Well, that compile bug would be an issue, while sharing your github action could be a new discussion thread.

[dimitre]

Compiled error fixed, building great on Ubuntu now.