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[cellml-dev] [cellml-discussion] ABI CellML Meeting Minutes, 6th July, 2011


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  • From: r.britten at auckland.ac.nz (Randall Britten)
  • Subject: [cellml-dev] [cellml-discussion] ABI CellML Meeting Minutes, 6th July, 2011
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:07:01 +0000
We have access to a 64 bit mac, I just hadn't had a chance yet today to tell
Andrew.

Regards,
Randall

On 12/07/2011, at 7:33 PM, "Alan Garny" <alan.garny at dpag.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>> From: cellml-tools-developers-bounces at cellml.org [mailto:cellml-tools-
>> developers-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Miller
>>> On 12/07/11 18:43, Alan Garny wrote:
>>>> From: cellml-tools-developers-bounces at cellml.org
>>>> [mailto:cellml-tools- developers-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> Andrew Miller
>>>>> On 08/07/11 12:04, Alan Garny wrote:
>>>>> Having just read the minutes, I can't see any more update on the
>>>>> binaries for the CellML API... Would it be possible to have an
>>>>> update on what the status is on this?
>>>> I am currently working on porting the CellML API to use CMake instead
>>>> of Makefile / configure, as this has been planned for a while, and
>>>> there is
>>> no
>>>> point porting the autotools based system to work on more platforms
>>>> and then just throwing that work away when we move to cmake.
>>>>
>>>> Once the API can be built with cmake, it will be possible to work on
>>> making
>>>> binaries. I have a Windows build system ready to go and have updated
>>>> the build system setup script to the latest MSVC. Getting 64-bit Mac
>>>> support
>>> is
>>>> also held up on me getting access to a 64-bit Mac (although Lucian
>>>> wants a PPC Mac build and to keep the x86 build, while you want
>>>> x86-64, so we need to discuss which platforms we should actually
>>>> support - there is more
>>> support
>>>> amongst people at the API to moving towards newer Mac support, rather
>>>> than back to PPC); I'm not sure when that will happen.
>>>
>>> Do you have any idea about the timing for all of this? I should come
>>> down under sometime in September/October, so it would be nice if the
>>> binaries were to be ready before my visit, so that I can get a chance
>>> to test them out within my Qt-C++ environment.
>>
>> CMake support seems to almost be there, so Linux x86 and x86-64 bit
> binaries
>> could be produced relatively quickly after that. MSVC10 and gcc-mingw
>> shouldn't take too long either.
>>
>> 64-bit Mac OS X support is dependent on things outside my control (i.e.
>> getting access to a 64-bit Mac), so I can't really answer for that
> platform. I'd
>> suggest you start with the platforms binaries are available for, and build
> from
>> there as more binaries become available, rather than hoping for a 'big
> bang'
>> change when all the binaries you want are ready.
>
> Sure, should the worst come to the worst, then I will have no choice but do
> that, but that's not the way I wish I would have to do things. With regards
> to my work on OpenCOR, I want my support for all three platforms to be on
> par. As you know (from the PCEnv/OpenCell days), to play catch-up can be
> very time consuming, so I would rather avoid it.
>
> So... is there really no way to get that 64-bit Mac OS X support sorted out?
> It seems like you guys have been waiting for it for months now. Surely, it
> can't be that difficult to get?!
>
> Alan
>
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