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zstd is a great setup, for sure, but the build system they use is patently awful. Can someone make an autoconf or hell, even CMake build system for them pleasee

zstd is a great setup, for sure, but the build system they use is patently awful. Can someone make an autoconf or hell, even CMake build system for them pleasee???

loeg 2y ago
Just install the binary package from whatever distro you use? Why do you need to build it? But if it matters, FreeBSD has a pretty trivial BSDmake build of it: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/libzstd/Makefile https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/libzstd... https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/usr.bin/zstd/Makefile https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/usr.bin/zst... You could easily do something similar in GNU make or whatever without the dependencies on the FBSD build system. It's basically just the classic "cc -c a bunch of C files, then link them."
- jrockway 2y ago
  I suppose the point of open source software is to edit the source code and make your own version. If you can't build it, you can't do that.
  - loeg 2y ago
    Zstd has lots of contributors who have all figured out how to edit and build it.
    - ThatGuyRaion 2y ago
      It's basically a giant GCCism. Don't be condescending.
      - loeg 2y ago
        I have no idea what you're talking about at this point.
    - jrockway 2y ago
      Yeah, not sure what the original commenter is complaining about. I did "git clone https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://github.com/facebook/zstd", "cd zstd", "make" and have a working binary. Doesn't get easier than that.
      - ThatGuyRaion 2y ago
        Not everyone is using a standard tool chain or anything like that and oftentimes when I find projects with atypical build systems that give me trouble I tend to just move on to something else
- ThatGuyRaion 2y ago
  > Just install the binary package from whatever distro you use? Why do you need to build it? Cuz I'm actually a packaging maintainer for a couple different old operating systems. Regardless I thank you for being thankful even though I feel like you were being backhanded and demeaning on a number of levels.
  - arp242 2y ago
    > you were being backhanded and demeaning on a number of levels. What an awful comment to make.
MawKKe 2y ago
Quick glance of zstd github repo shows they do provide CMake build scripts?
- ThatGuyRaion 2y ago
  Last I touched it they only had glitchy make files and I don't like cmake particularly, I was just like "bespoke make files are fine if they're posix compliant, but these aren't"

zstd is a great setup, for sure, but the build system they use is patently awful. Can someone make an autoconf or hell, even CMake build system for them pleasee???

loeg 2y ago

Just install the binary package from whatever distro you use? Why do you need to build it? But if it matters, FreeBSD has a pretty trivial BSDmake build of it: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/libzstd/Makefile https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/libzstd... https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/usr.bin/zstd/Makefile https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/usr.bin/zst... You could easily do something similar in GNU make or whatever without the dependencies on the FBSD build system. It's basically just the classic "cc -c a bunch of C files, then link them."

jrockway 2y ago
I suppose the point of open source software is to edit the source code and make your own version. If you can't build it, you can't do that.
- loeg 2y ago
  Zstd has lots of contributors who have all figured out how to edit and build it.
  - ThatGuyRaion 2y ago
    It's basically a giant GCCism. Don't be condescending.
    - loeg 2y ago
      I have no idea what you're talking about at this point.
  - jrockway 2y ago
    Yeah, not sure what the original commenter is complaining about. I did "git clone https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://github.com/facebook/zstd", "cd zstd", "make" and have a working binary. Doesn't get easier than that.
    - ThatGuyRaion 2y ago
      Not everyone is using a standard tool chain or anything like that and oftentimes when I find projects with atypical build systems that give me trouble I tend to just move on to something else
ThatGuyRaion 2y ago
> Just install the binary package from whatever distro you use? Why do you need to build it? Cuz I'm actually a packaging maintainer for a couple different old operating systems. Regardless I thank you for being thankful even though I feel like you were being backhanded and demeaning on a number of levels.
- arp242 2y ago
  > you were being backhanded and demeaning on a number of levels. What an awful comment to make.

MawKKe 2y ago

Quick glance of zstd github repo shows they do provide CMake build scripts?

ThatGuyRaion 2y ago
Last I touched it they only had glitchy make files and I don't like cmake particularly, I was just like "bespoke make files are fine if they're posix compliant, but these aren't"